Can you believe a leftist had the gall to say the U.S. healthcare system was 38th best in the world?

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I would love to see what insane data that is based on. Anyone who claims such nonsense has no hope of ever being credible.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au69albTziQ6fF5D2uGdkNbsy6IX?qid=20070623095124AAGx87n

Like I said I need to look at the insane data such a ridiculous statement was based on to debunk it.

Answer 1

someone stated that the US is "very bad at treating chronic disease". This is not true, we are bad a treating social diseases (i.e. STDs) but not Chronic. People (libtards mainly) we find a way to spin things just right to make the US look bad. Compare the populations of those countries ahead of us, then you'll see some truth behind it. There are like 5 other countries, nationwide, that have a higher household income avg. than the US, but the top five have less people living in all 5 combined than the state of Georgia.
Dems also like to use Canada's long life span vs. the US to talk about how great socialized health care is, however, if you take blacks out of the equation (because Canada's population isn't 14% black) you will see that your avg. Canadian male lives about 5-9 months longer than your avg. American male. Not tring to be racist there, but black males have much shorter (by 10+ years) life expectancy than white males in America.

Answer 2

Well we know it's definitely not the best. The NHS in England and similar systems in Commonwealth countries actually have doctors and nurses that care and are not profit driven, we can get medications for a flat fee of around $12 which cost hundreds here or aren't even approved by your insurance, we can walk into any hospital and not have to fumble for our insurance cards while our baby pukes and loses consciousness in the ER and best of all, we don't leave people to die on the floor in the ER and have the janitor mop up around them as they go through the death throes.
I have a pituitary tumor and in England was given the best drug available, Dostinex which has less side effects than bromocriptine and is taken only twice per week instead of several times a day. When I moved here, I was told that I could no longer have Dostinex as it was too expensive?
You may have more cutting edge technology but it's only available to those that can afford to pay and to hell with the rest of the nation! I can easily believe that the US isn't even in the top 10 nations because it falls way behind the UK, Sweden, Australia etc in terms of care and coverage for all.

Answer 3

It's from the World Health Organization and it's based on rate of chronic disease per capita. These numbers have been published for decades and have never been refuted. Even Congress has commented on this data as an indication of how the health care system is not serving "The People."

In spite of the US being #1 in health care spending and #1 in shock trauma care we are very, very bad at dealing with chronic disease which is why the American Medical Association reports that over 100 million Americans suffer from some form of chronic disease.

The NIH as well as the CDC has had representatives testify to this fact in front of Congress.

It's not "leftist." It's simple math.

In fact, not only is it not leftist, but Republic Senators pushed legislation like the DSHEA Act of 1994 to improve the level of nutrition and health education in the United States, in spite of opposition from drug lobbies. The Act was passed unanimously by both houses of Congress...

Top that off with the fact that the AMA reported, through the Journal of the American Medical Association that over 100,000 deaths occur in the US each year due to the effects of properly prescribed and properly used medications. When they added that to the total deaths due to medical errors, the fourth leading cause of death in the US was found to be "medical care" coming in at about 450,000 annual deaths.

That being said, it should still be emphasized that we have THE BEST shock trauma care in the world and lives are saved every single day by miracles at the hands of highly trained and caring medical professionals.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

You can try to substitute other factors if you wish in evaluating the health rankings but you would just be deluding yourself. The United States has a lot of room for improvement.

Our health technology is superb. Our overall health and health care are not so good, in comparison.

Answer 6

The figures are correct. Granted, the scienceand technollogy we have are in the top tier, if not #1. But in terms of access--of actual deliivery of services (by whatever means, public or private) we do indeed rank 38th. And, to be blunt, all the cutting-edge knowledge in the world doesn't mean squat if people don't get the benifits.

Answer 7

There is no "leftist" they fell with the Soviet Union. By-the-way what is a "gall" is that some fading generations segregation word from the 50s?

Answer 8

yep, i would believe it.

i work for the nations largest hospital corporation and know for a fact that in fact that's where the usa now ranks among the developed world for quality of health care.

truth hurts, in this case literally...

Answer 9

Here's the World Health Organization's ranking

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
http://www.who.int/whr/2006/en/index.html

Here's the CDC's description of our infant mortality statistics, which are appalling for a nation of our resources.

http://www.cdc.gov/omhd/AMH/factsheets/infant.htm

Answer 10

pretty much any scientific journal, amongst developed nations the US is also 2nd to last in infant mortality rate as well...look it up

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=us_health_care_tmln

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=43061&nfid=rssfeeds