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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (341169)6/24/2007 7:41:16 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1573930
 
re: health care in the US.

You sure it's improved?

Yes.

Look at all the additional cases of chronic stuff like diabetes.

1 - Treatment for those conditions is better.

2 - If people eat more, or eat more sugar, or refined starches, or exercise less, that isn't a change in health care.

3 - The fact that people live longer means they are more likely to survive to get these diseases.

4 - The health of Americans in general is better. That's not an issue that's just about the quality of the health care system, but it is true. In the short run the changes are too slow to be definitive, but compare the overall health (adjusted for age) of Americans now to Americans of a century or even a half century ago and we are clearly healthier. I'd argue for that being true even over shorter periods, but I'm only claiming the point where I'm on really solid ground at this time.

The bottom line is that our system is 50% more expensive, less effective, and doesn't cover ~20-25% of the population.

50% more expensive needs some context to be meaningful. It could mean so many different things, some of which certainly are true. Less effective? Than what? Its more effective than in the past. Doesn't cover 20 to 25%? False. Not only in the sense that emergency care is provided to everyone, and that there are other free or low cost options, but also in the sense that more thant 3/4s have access to normal health care. 20 to 25% of the population may be uninsured, but that doesn't mean they need health care and can't get it.

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