Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) - April 4th, 2021 | Meet The Press | NBC News" video.

The problem with the US in a general sense is ineffective government, regardless of taxes. The public healthcare bill for the non universal US system is well in excess of the Australian universal healthcare system. Life expectancy is probably around 5 years longer in Australia so it's not like we get a substandard service in general terms. If you look at the last year obviously the public healthcare system in the US totally failed because "business" was considered more important than life and got neither only a giant deficit and lots of dead people compared to WHO Western Pacific region countries . PAHO Pan American Health Organization countries failed in general and headquartered in Washington DC. I think the US was most influential in the PAHO regional response to covid 19. I have waffled on a bit just making the point taxing and spending is irrelevant if the government is disfunctional in spending that money.
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@chrisstewart9191 are you suggesting that people are being declared dead in the US however they are still alive to bring the life expectancy number down? That's a pretty bizarre claim. The US has higher suicide, homicide, road fatality rates and whatever you want to call it those people dying with covid, so naturally the US life expectancy is lower, it's really simple maths, basically just count the dead people and find out how old they were.
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@darlacink7956 in the "hardest hit" countries actually covid 19 deaths don't add up to the number of excess deaths recorded so not sure why you think the numbers are inflated actually the numbers are worse because lockdown kills best to have as few of them and as short as possible meaning virus elimination lockdown not just hospital isn't full let's open up.
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