Why do we trust a health care system that kills over 100,000 a year?

Answer 1

Where did you get your statistics? You must be a friend of Michael Moore.....unfortunately abortion is not retroactive!

Answer 2

Of the 100,000 that die each year how many more are treated an live? Nobody posts that statistic very often. The 100,000 people represent only 0.6% of all people that go to the hospital. This means that 16.3 Million people are treated and released each year. That is a pretty darn good ratio!

Can it be improved? Yes, and things are being put into place to continually do that. We have an amazing health care industry and very capable personnel. Where we need work is on availability of those people and procedures through the HMO's.

Answer 3

The medical system does NOT kill 100,000 persons a year..
The hypothesis here, is that of the 47 million people covered by the Medicare and Medicaid system, 100,000 die....not killed.
among those, count those patient with aids, cancer (incurable types), accidents like all body burns, suicide, shot by muggers and buggers, dead because they snorted too much cocaine, smoked crack, or too much angel dust.
Or simply die of natural causes (age) or shooting themselves to death, street violence..nothing to do with the health care system...Health system does not kill anyone.. as far as I Know..
However, I am respectfully curious..
Where did you get such an information.... A health system killing people???? Its very interesting...Where is the source??...Is that a scientific magazine or review,,,please tell me, and I will analyze that carefully..I promise...
It would be in the eight columns of the main newspapers..
If you don trust that system, my personal suggestion is.....DONT USE IT...it might kill you, by the reliable (?) information and statistics that you posess, and make you be so confident pointing the finger to the system---

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Answer 4

I feel that the problem with modern healthcare isn't that they kill too many people. The fact of the matter is that negligence is not the cause of death in most of those cases. I think that doctors (aside from general practicioners who really don't do anything you can't do yourself aside from writing basic Rx and excuse notes for work/school) are overworked and underpaid. I mean why does an athlete or actor who you will probably never meet or will ignore you if you ever happen to meet them make much more money than a doctor who dedicates his or her life to learn and practice as much as they can to one day save your life.

That said, the medical system is completely screwy because it's run by insurance companies who do not deal with patients or have to have a medical degree of any kind to decide what is acceptable and what is not. Additionally people are generally kept alive longer than they should be in my personal opinion. Basic health needs of the masses are ignored in many cases while tons of money is thrown to certain end of life scenarios to extend lives where the chance of recovery and the quality of life of those pateints are minimal simply because they have money or good insurance coverage.

Answer 5

It's a shocking number for sure but then compare that number to how many lives are saved or improved by the health care system.
No system is perfect and I'm for improvements but we have to acknowledge that without the health care system the number of deaths would be much higher.

Answer 6

Why? Ignorance, :

"The health care system doesn't kill anyone. Disease, accidents, and injuries are what kill people."

and lack of choice. And because powerful lobbyists for pharmaceutical companies, doctors, hospitals and insurance companies work double overtime for insane sums of money (so if you really want to know why healthcare is so expensive, look at THAT, not at the people who sue incompetent doctors) to make sure that we get inaccurate and dishonest information so that we DO trust that health care system.

Answer 7

Because we don't have anywhere else to go.

We're the governments Guinea pigs.

They like to see what drugs do to us before they take them for themselves.

If we die, they won't take it.

Besides, they not only kill us but they provide us with the medication we need to get over our illness's.

So the med's killed a few people.
We still have more being born everyday.

There's ups and downs to everything. Medicine is just another thing with them.

I'm sure if we didn't have the medicine we had today, half of us wouldn't be here as it is.

Answer 8

It's better than over half the population over s./thing as easily taken care of as a bad tooth, etc.
Disease kills, and yes, there is also that thing called human error. Doctors are not God, but the majority of them are welltrained and would never do anything to harm another human being on purpose.

You've got it good here, but instead of complaining why don't you try to do s/thing about it, or just leave?

Answer 9

1. Because more than 100,000 are saved every year
2. The health care system doesn't KILL us, they just can't SAVE us. You don't go to a hospital and taken into a room and then have a gun pulled on you. That would be killing.

Answer 10

People assume health care is a perfect field. Until you we can figure out how to get machines to treat our illnesses, we will ALWAYS have errors. The people treating you are HUMAN and no matter how much training and caution there will always be mistakes. 100,000 out of 300 million is not a bad number.

Answer 11

Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll.......
Medical science isn't perfect.
The doctors aren't perfect.
The nurses aren't perfect.
The staff members aren't perfect.
The medications aren't perfect.
The hospitals and clinics aren't perfectly clean.

And it's a race to figure out the best techniques to combat medical emergencies and diseases. Everyday, new things are discovered about how to combat ailments, that show that what we have done historically is not enough or inept.

But all we can do is try...."first do no harm"....which is an on-going battle. We think a specific disease is wiped out...then it reappears with a vegence! It's imperfect, but it is the best we can do. What you can do is to try and have the odds on your favor by reading up on what you CAN do to help keep the liklihood of death to a minimum.

Read this - not an easy read, but chock-full of info that will open up your eyes to what is out there, and among us every single day.
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