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"The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." Note: Subject actually started by Lazarus Long. Would the US be better off with a national single payer (other) health system? Or should the current system be left alone or even pushed more towards getting the gov’t out? =============================================================== Please source your material. If you are reposting from elsewhere you must give credit and an url is preferred. No one will be banned for political viewpoint. Warnings and bans can be awarded for intentionally posting ignorantly; this thread is a treasure trove of information on the subject, read prior posts before spouting off. Trolling for trouble and excessive vulgarity are bannable. Racial, religious, and ethnic hatred and prejudice is a bannable offense. No conspiracy theories. See Ray Duray for an appropriate place for those. We will deal in FACTS. Serious vulgarity, repeated intentional disruption, and repeated personal attacks will be grounds for bans. Two warnings given before bans. Moderator decides on bans, but will accept input and suggestions via PM and posts from thread participants. Including after-the-fact appeals. This is not a democracy. The moderator is sole and final judge. =============================================================== CBO report on the actual extimated costs of Obama/Pelosi-Care Message 28321693 =============================================================== On Retail Health Clinics: Message 26387802 =============================================================== A nationalized health care system isn't a cure-all. It's EASY to come up with countries that have such that do worse than those without. Public health measures can be worth more than all the docs in the country. Clean water supply eliminates many diseases. Air and water pollution cause disease. Training of docs counts. Location of country counts. Cold = no (or fewer for less time) mosquitoes = no malaria – a leading killer. Habits count. US obesity epidemic is arguably an educational problem, not a medical one. observer.guardian.co.uk US has done more than many countries to curtail smoking. It is still common in Europe and Japan. Obesity and smoking arguably cause self induced disease. Is it fair to hold others accountable for one’s one sloppiness and ignorance? Immigration and its source affect a country’s morbidity and mortality rates. Ill-educated low income migrants can pull them down; well educated high income migrants pull them up. How do Canada and Europe compare to the US here? The legal system is important in determining costs. US system allows large damages for innocent and unknown mistakes by docs and pharmas; othere countries don’t. Pharmas can sell drugs for less because of lower legal risk. “Free” resources (or those were the real cost has been shifted on to someone else at gunpoint by the gov’t) tend to be overused. This SAME criticism can be made of employer provided health insurance in the US- -it looks free to the employee; in fact, it comes out of pay he would have gotten. On Cuba: Message 26361873 Pictures of a modern Cuban medical facility: Message 26418009 CIA Factbook: cia.gov Canada Health Act hc-sc.gc.ca Canada: life expectancy at birth: 79.96 years infant mortality: 5.3 deaths per 1,000 live births statcan.ca US life expectancy cdc.gov life expectancy at birth: 77.2 years infant mortality: 7.0 per 1,000 live births International comparisons of infant mortality are compromised by a lack of standardization with regard to birth registration practices. collection.nlc-bnc.ca Lots of statistics on infant mortality: marchofdimes.com U.S. lobbies notwithstanding, Canada’s health care is superior worldpolicy.org The other side: The Fraser Institute, a Vancouver, B.C.-based think tank, has done yeoman's work keeping track of Canada's socialized health-care system. It has just come out with its 13th annual waiting-list survey. It shows that the average time a patient waited between referral from a general practitioner to treatment rose from 16.5 weeks in 2001-02 to 17.7 weeks in 2003. Saskatchewan had the longest average waiting time of nearly 30 weeks, while Ontario had the shortest, 14 weeks. Waiting lists also exist for diagnostic procedures such as computer tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound. Depending on what province and the particular diagnostic procedure, the waiting times can range from two to 24 weeks. As reported in a December 2003 story by Kerri Houston for the Frontiers of Freedom Institute titled "Access Denied: Canada's Healthcare System Turns Patients Into Victims," in some instances, patients die on the waiting list because they become too sick to tolerate a procedure. Houston says that hip-replacement patients often end up non-ambulatory while waiting an average of 20 weeks for the procedure, and that's after having waited 13 weeks just to see the specialist. The wait to get diagnostic scans followed by the wait for the radiologist to read them just might explain why Cleveland, Ohio, has become Canada's hip-replacement center. Adding to Canada's medical problems is the exodus of doctors. According to a March 2003 story in Canada News (www.canoe.ca), about 10,000 doctors left Canada during the 1990s. Compounding the exodus of doctors is the drop in medical school graduates. According to Houston, Ontario has chosen to turn to nurses to replace its bolting doctors. It's "creating" 369 new positions for nurse practitioners to take up the slack for the doctor shortage. townhall.com mortality expectations not affected in Canada by income levels pubmedcentral.nih.gov OTOH, Canadians have higher death risk than Americans after heart attack mediresource.sympatico.ca. In Canada, the most recent childhood cancer survival data, from 1995-96, demonstrate one-year survival rates of over 90%, three-year survival rates of over 80% and an estimated five-year survival rate of 75% phac-aspc.gc.ca U.S. Cancer Survival Rates Improving …………………………………………… the five-year survival rate for all cancers is 63 percent. And for those cancers detected early through screening programs, the survival rate is 84 percent. healthfinder.gov Health, Canada, and Drugs: Message 20639042 Message 20751070 And let us not forget the US DOES in fact have some socialized medicine: Medicare. Health Spending in Most OECD Countries Rises, with the U.S. far Outstripping all Others oecd.org Interesting statistics on US death rates and causes of death: benbest.com Lots of good OECD statistics: oecdwash.org 216.239.63.104 Biotech stocks: Subject 26145 Making claims or citing figures? Then provide your sources! Anecdotes are just that- -anecdotes and NOT evidence. Wisdom of the ages that directly apples to the subject at hand: Pros and Cons of Single Payer (Socialized Medicine): Healthcare Bluebook Top Ten Myths about American Healthcare what is the goal of the government option?: Message 25880147 How many Americans are uninsured: Message 26030766 Tired of the leftwing propaganda? Here is some rightwing propaganda on the proposals to take over the healthcare system: healthcaretruth.amplify.com Explaining the bizarre math of spending more and calling it a reduction. A brief list of Republican Alternatives to the government takeover of the healthcare sector: Message 26357442 Facts reveal that ObamaNoCare was written to generate low income voters: http://obamanocare%20designed%20to%20generate%20low%20invome%20voters./ Important information about health insurance alternative: Message 29299148 | ||||||||||||
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