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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Best healthcare in the world

Echoing a broader theme....
The United States ranks near the bottom for infant survival rates among modernized nations. A Save the Children report last year placed the United States ahead of only Latvia, and tied with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia.

The same report noted the United States had more neonatologists and newborn intensive care beds per person than Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom — but still had a higher rate of infant mortality than any of those nations.

Doctors and analysts blame broad disparities in access to health care among racial and income groups in the United States.....
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posted by mikevotes at 1:47 PM

7 Comments:

  • what did you make of sicko?

    i thought he painted a somewhat overly rosey picture of the system here but at the same time i knew the US system was bad but didnt know it was that bad.

    people here, despite the problems, definitell don't want to lose the national health service,

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:35 AM  

  • Never saw it.

    I'm not really a Michael Moore fan, not because I dislike his politics or whatever, but I generally dislike his filmmaking.

    Back when he had the two TV shows, TV Nation and (something) Truth, I watched those alot. His method/humor I found very effective in 1/2 hour bites of single performance art jokes, but in the longer format I tend to find him tiresome and too preachy.

    To the real point on healthcare: The US does have the best healthcare in the world at the top/most expensive level, and that's the level at which the powerful and decision makers receive their care. Despite all the rhetoric, they don't even see the problem that largely affects the bottom third and hidden communities.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 7:20 AM  

  • Our average life-span and infant mortality will continue to lag other industrialized nations as long as the urban emergency room remains the primary access to health care for the uninsured and under-insured. From a purely economic standpoint, would it not be cheaper to provide someone with an inexpensive prescription for antibiotics than to wait for that illness to progress to the point where tens of thousands of dollars of critical care are required? Any analogy that seeks to buttress the belief that increased health care spending doesn’t translate into better overall health is flawed in that it fails to realize that, while the US spends more per capita on health care, most of that spending occurs within the last days of life in an attempt to forestall death.

    By Blogger BobbyV, at 10:26 AM  

  • Very good point bobby. Healthcare is definitely not an area where I claim any substantial knowledge.

    Prevention is always better, and it's those last day decisions where any dort of mutualized healthcare gets complicated.

    Do I do X procedure to prolong life, or offer infant and prenatal care to a hundred? Those decisions are where it all gets so messy.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:24 PM  

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