We are coming down to the wire on the issue of whether or not our country is going to adopt some form of national health-care for most of, if not all, its citizens. A lot of nonsense and outright false information has been cast about during the long debates and arguments which have brought us to this point.
Some of the debates, and much of the misinformation, have been about how the US system of health-care delivery compares to systems used in other countries; particularly those which are modern industrialized democracies like our own. In August of last Summer an article published in The Washington Post did a good job of exploding many of the myths about health-care delivery in countries similar to ours. I did not see the article when it first came out and I’m sure many others did not either. So I’m sharing it here in its entirety.
