Canadian Doctor & Why Socialized Medicine Doesn't Work

That would influence the life expectancy. It's rather questionable if it would influence the life expectancy of a population of 300,000,000 people by almost 2.5 years, but David Gratzer, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, only wrote an opinion piece, not some kind of scientific report. So, well.

But health care also influences infant mortality, and not only is life expectancy in the States lower - the infant mortality rate in the States is also significantly higher than in Canada.

(4.63 in Canada vs. 6.37 in the United States - according to the CIA World Factbook)

That's because of all the illegals coming into the USA to give birth.

It might sound to be a stupid question, but what really is "socialized medicine"?

I mean, we've got specialised doctors for 'Social Medicine" - but that's something different, I suppose. (As is the 'Social Medecine' I had to study at university :wink: )
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Infos on Dr. Glatzer

Is there a socialist around?

No idea, I'm a Social-Democrat ...

(And again, just in case you forgot it: our health system was inroduced by Prince Bismarck, famous, too, for introducing the law which outlawed all Social-Democratic organisations five years later.)

In Chicago , "Bismarck" is so famous, a pastry was named after him.