If we lose anybody to this pandemic it will prove the health system needs replacing. Remember our government alone spends more, per capita, on health care than any other government in the world. It’s not because our population is aging, or we’re rich. Europe and Japan are way older than us, and we’re not that much richer (per capita) than the rest of the world. We’re actually poorer than Luxembourg and Norway.

Remember that when you defend the status quo. You not only have to prove we’re better than Mexico, and Cuba. You have to prove we’re better than France and Britain. A lot better.

Good luck with that. You’ll probably be able to prove we’re better than Cuba, but the industrialized world does better than us on every measure I can think of. Which means that a) our system is really shitty, as it can’t keep people healthy even when we give it twice the funding the Brits give their system; or b) the entire world is lying to make us look bad.

Cue Glenn Beck.

You might want to wait for some actual scientific data before you leap astride your hobby horse and ride it around the ring.

Let’s wait and see whether this swine flu is dismbiguated from some other illness in Mexico. Just to take one possibility. Or find out whether the virus has mutated after its initial strike. Or whether there might have been different methods of transmission resulting in different effects.

It’s a bit early to decide that this is cause for yelling about the health care system more broadly.

Yeah, because we all know that the US has the absolute WORST healthcare system in the world. Just look – Cuba has no reported swine flu cases!! Just another reason why we need to duplicate their healthcare system here!!!

Are you serious?!? “No understanding” why there are swine flu deaths in a developing country but no deaths in the US??

Maybe we really DO need to adopt Hillarycare/Obamacare in the US….after all, it would be downright arrogant of the US citizens to recover from swine flu while other great countries let thier citizens die….