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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (11344)	11/16/2009 3:32:38 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

In certain important measures yes. A couple can be sited. But it seems like, if we did truly have the best overall system, there would be stats SOMEWHERE to prove it. Instead all I see are things like the following, outside the WHO study. And all I see is you folks taking shots at methodology. As a neutral observer (not) I would be suspicious that the Americans were biased when they say their system is the best. Canadians live longer than Americans do after kidney transplants and after dialysis, and that may be typical of cross-border differences. One review examined 10 studies of how the American and Canadian systems dealt with various medical issues. The United States did better in two, Canada did better in five and in three they were similar or it was difficult to determine. Yet another study, cited in a recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute, looked at how well 19 developed countries succeeded in avoiding “preventable deaths,” such as those where a disease could be cured or forestalled. What Senator Shelby called “the best health care system” ranked in last place.