[kahljorn]

"can you explain "healthcare" I'm Canadian and rarely see woman that look like thier anus swallowed there electric scooter."

I think your explaination with quotes implying sarcasm pretty much did the trick.

Healthcare by american terms means you can goto the doctor and he'll give you pills or check your temperature or reccomend a surgery to you and you'll either get it free or get it at discount if you have american health insurance(otherwise you pay out the ass and that scooter won't fetch much if you know what i mean). However they rarily give you tips on how to stay healthy until well after you have a disease and you're no longer healthy, then they tell you to stop eatting red meat, stop drinking alcohol and have a glass of red wine at dinner before you take your pill. All of this is after you have a disease or condition and is really just to avoid aggravating it. This isn't all doctors but it is alot of them ;/
It's mostly just because there's no emphasis on staying healthy but rather an emphasis on treating diseases and conditions, which american medicine is very good at.
Guys once you have a disease for the most part you can't get rid of it :O

Preventitive healthcare, ideally, is basically teaching people at a young age how to be healthy so they never have to goto a doctor.

Also Kevin posted something relevant to the american health care system:
"The reason the FDA can't outright ban trans fats is because corporations would go nuts."

The pharmacutical industry is huge in america and preventative healthcare would really fuck with it so i hate to say they want people to be unhealthy because I'm sure somebody would have something to say about that but it's certainly in their best interests.