Do the lack of paid vacation days raise our health care costs in the US compared with the rest of the world?

The US worker gets approximately 13 days of paid vacation a year. Most other First World Countries get many more days. France: 37 days. Italy: 42 days. UK: 28 days. Canada: 26 days. Japan 25 days. Germany 35 days.|||are you saying that they get more rest, so they get sick less?





maybe?





also, part of it may be the socialized systems that can often treat ailments before they become major problems...





like if a poor person gets a rash in the US... he may just ignore it because he doesn't have the money, it gets worse, becomes infected... and he ends up having to go to the hospital for several days... at great cost...





in another nation, he can see the doctor with no worry of the cost... no hospital stay... just one GP visit and some cream





EDIT: related note... you want to freak out a European friend... tell them how much vacation you get...





they will laugh at you and call you stupid...|||Can you post some stats how one related to the other?|||Thanks to Obama I got the year off|||Nope.





TORT LAW does.|||I think France and Europe have higher health care costs because they have to staff for all their vacation days and smaller work weeks.