As the Great Health Care Debate rolls on, with the left calling the right careless Capitalists and the right countering with thieving Socialists, it’s nice to have a little humor injected into the situation, and in the case of the video below, humor based on the facts. What facts?
The World Health Organization conducted a WHO World Health Report in 2000, ranking the world’s health care systems based on a wide variety of factors. Indeed, so various were the factors, and so complex the task of ranking based on them, WHO no longer does such a report. But they did then, and the fact that America was placed at the abyssmal # 37 spot (between Costa Rica and Slovenia) has been fodder on both sides – the left saying it proves something is wrong with the US and the right saying it proves something is wrong with the UN (WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system).
No matter what side you take, you can hopefully find some humor in this Paul Hipp video, which seems to take a Bruce Springstein-style flag waving approach (who, it should be said, has taken to flag waving for the left) and turn it on its head in an attempt to shake some Americans from their belief that their indisputably great country is indisputably the greatest at all things.
As they say, admittance is the first step toward solving the problem, and Paul Hipp is here to help us take that step. Enjoy!
Photo via Wikimedia Commons.