As I’ve posted about before, the cowardly lackeys of the health insurance industries will try to scare the crap out of you to prevent the government from providing a ‘public option’ that competes with them. Only they should have the right to withhold care from you.

This clip is a classic case of having virtually no reasonable position against the public option that they can defend. Broun is just standing up there trying to foist lies off the top of his head when he comes up with this idiocy:

So Medicare has been slaughtering Americans for decades, Paul? What a moron.

Seven Country Health Care Survey

Which country’s citizens believe that their medical system needs a complete overhaul? According to a a study published in Health Affairs (”…Adults’ Health Care Experiences In Seven Countries, 2007“), one third of Americans believe that we need to “rebuild completely” our health care system.

Minor Changes Needed / Fundamental Changes Needed / Rebuild Completely / HC Spending per capita / HC Spending / GDP EMR
Australia ……..24% 55% 18% $3,128 9.5% 79%
Canada ……….26% 60% 12% $3,326 9.8% 23%
Germany …….20% 51% 27% $3,287 10.7% 42%
Netherlands….42% 49% 9% $3,094 9.2% 98%
N. Zealand……26% 56% 17% $2,343 9.0% 92%
UK ………………26% 57% 15% $2,724 8.3% 89%
US ………………16% 48% 34% $6,697 16.0% 28%

List of countries by intentional homicide rate

List of countries by homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants:

United States………5.8
United Kingdom….2.03
Canada……………….1.85

Georgia Department of Human Resources
INFANT MORTALITY

High infant mortality in Georgia is more than a health problem. It is an important indicator of the overall health status of the state’s women and children and the quality of life in communities. For the past decade Georgia has had one of the highest infant mortality rates in the nation, even though the state’s rate of infant deaths has been decreasing steadily during this time. The most recent data report (2002) places Georgia as the seventh highest in infant mortality among all the states.

Congratulations, Paul.