Quality of Life

The OECD Quality of Life tables are rather interesting.  For those of you who are not consumed by things economic - you might be interested to read on.

Psychiatric beds per capita - Japan 2.7, Australia 0.4, US 0.2

Acute care hospital beds per capita - Japan 8.2, Australia 3.6, US 2.7

Practicing physicians per capita - Greece 5.4, Australia 2.8, US 2.4

Obesity as percentage of adult population - South Korea 3.3%, Australia 21.4%, US 35.3%

Infant mortality rate - Sweden 2.75, Australia 4.75, US 6.26

Probability of not reaching age 60 - Iceland 5.8%, Australia 6.3%, US 10.8%

Healthy life expectancy at birth - Japan 76, Australia 74, US 70

In every one of those measures the US is at or near the bottom of the OECD - and yet few of their citizens know it and their media won't mention it.

Just goes to show what a couple of decades of Fox News will do to a country - combined with 20+ years of dumbing down by a completely broken political process.

Which is why we can't let our politicians meekly follow along behind the USA.

If you want Australia to be near the top of the OECD Quality of Life tables then follow Japan and *some* of Europe - definitely not the USA.

Up to you Australia - have a think about it and work out what you want - because your politicians won't do it.

If on the other hand you don't care for Quality of Life then follow the US into their ugly little wars and suck up their culture on TV.

But don't assume that any of our politicians will inform you and give you choices.   All they will do is deceive you to capture your vote.