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Originally Posted by Sangetsu
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/D...rces/GNIPC.pdf This lists gross per-capita pay in dollars and purchasing parity, which takes into account things like health care and other expenses. Where is your country located on this list?
Think before you speak. School shootings make the world headlines frequently enough, but what is less often reported is that rates of violent crime in England surpassed those in America some years ago. Telegraph | News | Britain the most violent country in western Europe The numbers have only increased since this article was printed.
Obesity in England has quadrupled in recent years, and England is closing the obesity gap with American very quickly.
As for being a selfish country, how much did the UK spend in foreign aid last year as compared to the US? As for health care, an illegal immigrant from Mexico can swim across the river and go to an American hospital for $150,000 worth of bypass surgery. He will be treated immediately, regardless of his lack of citizenship or ability to pay. We have hospitals that are treating illegal immigrants with drug resistant tuberculosis, at a cost of one million dollars per year per patient. Illegal immigrants in America receive much more timely health care that legal citizens in the UK do, and these immigrants are not forced to pay so much as a single cent.
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I'm not on Bureda's side... But that's a lot of spin you're doing
-The gross pay per capita list ignores the benefits that a socialised health care system as you can't really put a dollar value on them. Not to mention that the idea that because Americans get "paid the most" and are therefore the greatest nation in the world is a stupid one.
-America may contribute the most net aid but as a percentage of it's GDP it actually ranks near the bottom only contributing 0.1% compare that to a country like Sweden near the top of that list which gives 0.35%.
Also I've heard that America's health care system is a shambles. It's definitely the most expensive system but I've also heard that it's the most inefficient as well. A visit to the doctor and treatment for a working class American on minimum wage can often total more than he or she earns in a week!