We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Satire comparing US medical care to inferior countries.
- In plain terms
- US healthcare is top tier unless you count tiny countries.
- What can you take from it?
- Pride in domestic systems.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is US healthcare best?
- How do we measure systems?
Another view
Ignores actual healthcare quality issues.
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