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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (542852)1/11/2010 1:50:05 PM
From: i-node1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1574803
 
>>> Prove to us that we have the best healthcare in the world. Do you have any statistics that support your assertion?

I've posted this time and again.

First and foremost, if you think a broad life expectancy figure, in some way measures, the quality of health care, you simply do not understand the issues. This is the same kind of mistake that WHO made in its oft-cited 10 year old study -- using obviously improper bases for comparisons amongst systems. Life expectancy is influenced far more by other factors than it is by the quality of health care (such as, the consumption of fast food, the sedentary lifestyles, smoking, etc. -- all of which are far more important predictors of life expectancy than any health care metric).

If you really want to know about the quality of health care look at the problems people suffer from and how good a job American health care does versus other nations. Take cancers, for example:





These are meaningful because they reflect the care that is received after a person is diagnosed with a given problem.

Do you know that over half of innovation in the field of health care comes from the US? Drugs, medical equipment, techniques -- more than half the major innovation around the world comes from the US.



I've posted about this stuff for months and I'm not going to recap it all. But it is pretty much indisputable that American health care leads the entire world by most important metrics. There are a few specific areas where America lags, and the bogus WHO study put us 37th behind Costa Rica -- but had to take into account level of socialization of medicine in order to get us there.
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