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Speechless: even having seen these claims before ... It makes me so cross that people can lie so outrageously and not be effectively challenged. ... shakes head sadly ... Obama is losing the health debate – but he can still mobilise and win | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian: "They have argued that if Steven Hawking were British he would be dead, even though Hawking is British and alive. They insist that under the NHS the state decides whether to 'pull the plug on grandma'."

For a little light relief, the article goes on to say this:

In a blend of the comic and the tragic one protester, who was hospitalised after he got into a fight at a town hall meeting in St Louis, had to have a whip-round to pay for his medical bill – it turns out he had no health insurance.

And, assuming these figures are about right; then there is a huge (but in this case very misplaced) trust in the USA's rightist population that if it's 'America' it must be best because ...

life expectancy in the UK is higher than the US, meaning that even with our supposed state-sponsored euthanasia our grannies still live longer than theirs... As a percentage of GDP the US spends twice as much on it as the UK, and yet one in six aren't even covered. According to government figures, life expectancy for women is lower than in Albania and infant mortality is higher than Cuba. This national disgrace conceals a regional outrage. Black infant mortality in Louisiana is on a par with Sri Lanka; in the very city where the reforms will be decided, Washington DC, life expectancy is lower than the Gaza Strip