The Guardian ran an article today that defeats many misconceptions about universal health care. A few interesting tidbits: The US spends more per person than any other country on health care; if the US had the same level of health care as Sweden, which is ranked first, 20,000 more babies a year would live until their 1st birthdays (the US has the same infant mortality rate as Croatia, Cuba, Estonia, and Poland); and, on a slightly different note, the US is home to 5 percent of the world's population, but 24 percent of its prisoners.
