...countries with universal healthcare as well as having a shorter lifespan than 10 other industrialized countries all of whom have universal government-sponsored healthcare.
First off he said that all of those statistics were lies, claiming that the US has the best healthcare in the world and that thousands of people from these other countries are coming to America everyday to get healthcare.
And his reason why these costs are so high compared to other countries, and here's where the bullshit meter goes over the top, he says it's because America has a diverse society with most of our poor people living in overcrowded cities, as if that automatically explains why our per-capita healthcare is costing THREE TIMES the world average.
And to top it off, he attacked Jimmy Kimmel for his comments the other night about his baby son who needed heart surgery and that this will mean that he has a lifetime 'preexisting condition'. Walsh said that kimmel should keep his views to himself since, at least from Walsh's point of view, late night TV personalities have NO right to make political comments. He said what Kimmel said was not true and that his story has no relevance with respect to the current debate in Congress. Basically he said that people need to be personally responsible for their health costs and shouldn't be looking to either government or insurance companies to pay their bills.
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