Price points out:
"Advocates of socializing health care have asked: how can America’s relatively free market spend the most money on health care, yet have among the worst outcomes?
"The answer is, we don’t. The oft-cited WHO rankings don’t really measure quality of health care, preferring to judge things like 'fairness of financial contribution' and measures like life expectancy (which is more strongly correlated to lifestyle than health care) or infant mortality (other countries use different standards and so generally record more infant deaths as stillbirths than we do, perversely making their numbers better even though they sometimes let marginal infants die)."
“Death Panels in Britain,” which soon may be coming to these shores, is worth a visit; so, too with the other links:
U.S. does 2x as many transplants as OECD average
U.S. has best cancer survival rates in OECD
Death panels in Britain are putting people to death who could have recovered
Death panels: now in kids’ sizes too! Infants being left to die.
U.S. has more MRIS “it was found that Canada had 4.6 MRI scanners per million population while the U.S. had 19.5 per million”
U.S. has about twice as many MRIs as OECD average
The U.S. gets new drugs 1 year sooner “On average, the FDA approval came 1 year ahead of clearance by the European Medicines Agency (EMEA).”
“Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway.”
“The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country”
U.S. performs more operations than any country in the world.
Lower U.S. life expectancy does not argue U.S. has worse health care due to lifestyle factors and differences in how infant mortality is reported
In the interest of spreading truth, please see fit to copy the links and pass them along.
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"The highest survival rates were found in the U.S. for breast and prostate cancer, in Japan for colon and rectal cancers in men, and in France for colon and rectal cancers in women, Coleman's team reports.
In Canada and Australia, survival was also high for most cancers."
So it all depends on how you look at it. The US system is not the best one and always will favor the profit before the patient because it's ran by private organizations. And that to me is the killer...
Lorne