LordPoekelfleisch

[quote who="psychoak" reply="205" id="2542806"]Something like pancreatic or colon cancer always metastasizes, and the US spanks Europe on those too. [/quote] And Europe spanks the US in other areas. Health care is a complex system and one system might excel in specific areas and loose in others. Generally I'd say that overall quality of health care would be similar throughout western states as training of doctors, use of treatments, use of technology etc. are more or less the sam

[quote who="Cind3rs" reply="172" id="2535366"]Well said. Capitalism is CLOSEST, though not matching, a human being's nature. Positive reinforcement, punishment. Socialism is only an ideal, imho. If given the chance, people will be lazy. [/quote] This is an ideological statement not really reflecting reality based upon neoclassical assumptions. Looking at reality this usually is not the case as countries like scandinavean ones would show. In contrast