To: Tim Fowler who wrote (132336) 3/5/2010 12:14:26 AM
From: Win Smith of 132346
It's always something, ain't it, Tim? Not being conservative, I don't tend to have a comprehensive definitive answer for everything off the top of my head. Looking up one little thing, though, there are apparently 5 countries in the OECD spending more than 50% of what the US spends on health care, and none of them hit 2/3 : seekingalpha.com , or static.seekingalpha.com for a blowup.
Some other random facts I stumbled on:
# The United States has 2.9 hospital beds per 1,000 residents, compared with a median of 3.7 beds per 1,000 residents among the other nations examined;
# The United States had 2.4 physicians per 1,000 residents in 2001, compared with a median of 3.1 physicians per 1,000 residents among the other nations examined in 2002;
# The United States had 7.9 nurses per 1,000 residents in the United States in 2001, compared with a median of 8.9 nurses per 1,000 residents among the other nations examined in 2002;
# The United States has 12.8 CT scanners per one million U.S. residents, compared with a median of 13.3 scanners per one million residents among the other nations examined; medicalnewstoday.com
Those figures imply an awful lot of extra responsiveness, not. |
