Re: Re: Re: Re: Funny you should say that.
Keep in mind too that it's a lot easier to deal with things like this when your entire continent has a population that is less than three times that of New York City alone.
How does this make it easier? The smaller the population is, the less money there is to pay for things.
Everything scales with population (and GDP per head)
According to Wikipedia, the USA is between 4th and 8th highest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita
Australia is 13th to 18th with about 75% of the per-capita GDP. So you have 33% MORE money to fix the problem than we do.
You could argue that our Aboriganls are as badly off as the USA's "African Americans" or whatever the current euphemism is for persons of a darker hue, but the financial argument is a total failure.
WHY are there masses of people in the USA without adequate healthcare?