Posted by jclarkbaker on 1/14/2013 3:34:00 PM (view original):
Posted by greeny9 on 1/14/2013 1:07:00 PM (view original):
And that article explained what exactly? that Obamacare (which has nothing whatsoever to do with universal healthcare) that I have never argued for is expensive? Imagine that Obamacare is expensive. All I have said is that universal healthcare is far superior to your private healthcare.
You have YET to explain anything at all Baker. I said that our systems are cheaper because they are universal. Your turn Baker...
By using the stat of life expectancy. Which I have shown is a joke, because of all the factors that go into that stat, Mr. Butterfield.
Why don't you go look at stats like, how long you have to wait for care after being diagnosed with cancers, of all types. Survival rates for cancer sufferers in each country. Waits for care of all types in different countries. Etc.
You know, you think your system is better, but the reality is that 90% of the people in this country have far superior care. As to the 10% that don't, the solution is to fix that apsect of the system, not blow it up and go universal, where the aforementioned 90% end up getting worse care.
And simply, when each day the Brit press has horror story about the ******* disaster that is the NHS, and every day a Doc in Canada comes here to practice, don't ******* tell me your system is better. Because it's not. Again, if you think waiting months for simple procedures is a good system, well congrats. Enjoy that. Because all universal health care does is what I said before: make care mediocre for the great majority, by rationing and waits, and denial of procedures.
According to this:
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEEQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cancer.org%2Facs%2Fgroups%2Fcontent%2F%40epidemiologysurveilance%2Fdocuments%2Fdocument%2Facspc-027766.pdf&ei=jG30UOT5EqrO0QGgsYDoAQ&usg=AFQjCNHg4tENghYhx8jJv3WoynrRVzBYEA&bvm=bv.1357700187,d.dmQ
which is a pdf describing cancer incidence rates and mortality globally the USA is right in the middle roughly for most cancers in terms of mortality, and near the top for incidences. By the way the link is from cancer.org, so I think its probably pretty accurate, and apolitical.
and this is a link for wait times:
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2011-en/06/08/index.html;jsessionid=as008die826bn.delta?contentType=&itemId=/content/chapter/health_glance-2011-59-en&containerItemId=/content/serial/19991312&accessItemIds=/content/book/health_glance-2011-en&mimeType=text/html
Wait times for Canadians for elective surgery is terrible at 25 weeks, but the USA is on par or close to with numerous universal health care countries USA-7 Nehterlands -5 France - 7 New Zealand 8 Germany 5. There are some other countries with terrible wait times too: Sweden 22 UK 21.
Wait times for seeing a specialist: Canada 59, Sweden 55, France 47, Netherlands 30, UK 28, USA 20, Switzerland 18, Germany 17.
So yes for wait times the USA is at the top (but not by itself) in fact several countries are tied or better then, but Canada does very badly here as do several other universal health care countries. To be expected really considering how much less we spend on health care I think.
Now for a non partisan comparison of 191 countries health care systems I submit to you all the WHO.
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Fhealthinfo%2Fpaper30.pdf&ei=-3T0UMm5BqeB0AHluoEY&usg=AFQjCNFVFAcD3TjQCCjHyBhsQnhezUgAHw&bvm=bv.1357700187,d.dmQ
This is a PDF showing scores for 191 countries with France scoring the highest at .994 Italy next at .991 Spain 7th at .972 Japan 10th .957 Greece 14th .933 UK 18th .925 Canada 30th .881 Chile 33rd .870 USA 37th .838 Slovenia 38th .838 And the bottom few are Central African republic 189th .156 Myanmar 190th .138 and Sierra Leone 191st with a 0.0.
Now this is interesting the USA is tied with Slovenia, is behind such powerhouses like Chile, Canada, Greece (Bankrupt nation!) and Spain (also nearly bankrupt). What does this say? the USA doesnt get bang for its buck. France really really really does, and once again Canada is better then the USA.
How about that Baker, I think with these links I have conclusively proven that dollar for dollar the USA is at best no better then the rest of us, and according to WHO is worse then the vast majority of 1st world countries.
Eat it Baker.