US Healthcare-Where do we rate?

[desmom]

http://www.uexpress.com/richardreeves/?uc_full_date=20090904

Access to medical care in 23 developed Countries - US #23; Japan #1

Deaths Due to Surgical or Medical Mishaps - US #1

Avoidable Mortality - US #15; France #1

Number of Bankruptcies each year per Harvard Medical School And Harvard Law School Study - US 700,000; France 0; Italy 0; Germany 0; Canada 0.

Infant Mortality per the OCED - US 6.8 per 1,000, Sweden 2.4 per 1,000; Japan 2.8 per 1,000, France 3.6 per 1,000; Poland 6.4 per 1,000

Average administration cost (including profit) of American health insurance companies - approx. 20%
Average administration cost of Medicare - 3%

T.R. Reid reports that the best American health care is probably the best in the world, but that care is rationed for a lucky few with good insurance or unlimited money.

[desmom]

:biggrin: That's pretty funny when you consider the source. Clue #1
obviously US would have the highest medical bankruptcies since all of the other countries mentioned have govt sponsored medical care. It would be pretty tough to have medical bankruptcies in that circumstance.

Since when did the UN or any of its subsidiaries become a useful or reliable source of info???:rolleyes:

p.s. I might add the 'rationing' you mention would not be such an issue if ins cos could sell across state lines. Which bureacracy is holding that back? Deregulating that would be instant savings and options people could have today. But that would be too easy and no power to obama.

Like the savings of the deregulation of the phone companies? :lol:

jmo

[St*ne C*old]

Here's where the US rates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARxjQ3IRqvg&feature=related] Comparing Canadian and American Health Care Truth is a wonderful thing. Except for the sad facts, the US does not stack up.

[desmom]

Here's where the US rates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARxjQ3IRqvg&feature=related] Comparing Canadian and American Health Care Truth is a wonderful thing. Except for the sad facts, the US does not stack up.

Thank you for the link. Very informative and eye opening.

[ortiga]

:biggrin: That's pretty funny when you consider the source. Clue #1
obviously US would have the highest medical bankruptcies since all of the other countries mentioned have govt sponsored medical care. It would be pretty tough to have medical bankruptcies in that circumstance. :biggrin:

Since when did the UN or any of its subsidiaries become a useful or reliable source of info???:rolleyes:

p.s. I might add the 'rationing' you mention would not be such an issue if ins cos could sell across state lines. Which bureacracy is holding that back? Deregulating that would be instant savings and options people could have today. But that would be too easy and no power to obama.

That's what we need, massive deregulation of the health insurance companies.

[ortiga]

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T.R. Reid reports that the best American health care is probably the best in the world, but that care is rationed for a lucky few with good insurance or unlimited money.

I don't think you'd get people in Switzerland or Germany to go along with the characterization of the US having the "best care in the world". But at least the people in Switzerland and Germany have access to their country's health care. Every time I hear about the great advances in medicine concerned with face transplants and with Octomom it drives home the point of who is paying for those wonderful breakthroughs in health care, which make us the "best". And how few people really do get to participate in this "best health care".

I think it's like saying we have the best space program in the world.....so what?