The Most Outrageous U.S. Lies About Global Healthcare | Foreign Policy

The Most Outrageous U.S. Lies About Global Healthcare Foreign Policy

As the U.S. Congress this summer holds its first serious health-care reform debate since the Clinton era, the resulting public furor has featured increasingly overheated claims about everything from so-called "death panels" to the supposed prowess of America's homegrown medicine. Many of the most wildly inaccurate statements have been directed abroad -- sometimes at the United States' closest allies, such as Britain and Canada, and often at the best health-care systems in the world.

The lies rebutted include:

1. Stephen Hawking and Ted Kennedy would be doomed outside the US.
2. Canadians come to the US for urgent care.
3. All European health care systems are single payer.
4. Canada and Britain restrict health care choices.
5. The US has The Best Healthcare In The World. (TM)

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