Quote:Actually, the outcomes are tied to the overabundance we have as a nation. Clinically our population mostly suffers from diseases related to poor lifestyle choices and our healthcare system is stressed by keeping these people alive. We're experiencing the first ever crisis of abundance and we don't deal with it outside the clinical realm, so we end up with enormous costs to deal with the results, namely fat and out of shape people. We also spend most of that money on prolonging the end of life whereas those people are being assisted to suicide in the other system you tout. Further, we also spend money on trying to keep the almost born alive, and report those lives statistically where those other system generally don't. Finally, when you control for the large disparity between the minority populations, particularly in Canada that you mentioned, you find life expectancies to be much closer. Our healthcare system is broken, but it's not as simple as giving it all over to the government by following models that are used on populations a tenth the size and a hundred times more homogeneous than ours. As we've seen, the more we do that the worse it gets.