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Single Payer Health Systems

JT45242

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2. Gun deaths and anti-abortion laws have a huge impact

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Sat Nov 26, 2022, 08:14 AM

Nov 2022

No country not at war comes anywhere near the number of gun deaths that we have...which often affect young (40 and under) deaths.

Yes health care is a major problem and should be fixed. But our low life expectancy is a multidimensional problem.

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The US Spends Almost as Much on Healthcare as the Rest of the World Combined and Has One of the [View all] ck4829 Nov 2022 OP

Byzantine, expensive US system this way by counter-productive ideological Republican design Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #1

Gun deaths and anti-abortion laws have a huge impact JT45242 Nov 2022 #2

Having health care and retirement benefits tied to employment is absurd. twodogsbarking Nov 2022 #3