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People in the United States pay twice as much per capita for health care as do the French, yet French males live longer than males in the United States.
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The AMA is strongly in favor of a national health insurance program and has lobbied for its creation.
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Currently in the United States, 85% of new HIV infections involve male-to-male sexual contact or are due to intravenous drug use.
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Acute diseases are those which come on quickly, and are sometimes dramatic or incapacitating, from which a person either dies or recovers.
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Today, acute infectious diseases account for the majority of human deaths.
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To date, preventative medicine in the U.S. has had a considerably lower priority in terms of research and funding than crisis-oriented medicine.
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The life expectancy of women in the United States exceeds that of the life expectancy in all other countries.
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Those who are lower in socioeconomic status have substantially higher disease and death rates than their more affluent counterparts.
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People who are married and have children are healthier than those who are single or have no children.
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Research shows that investor-owned health insurance plans deliver a demonstrably lower quality of health care than not-for-profit plans.
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