Posted on 11/24/2011 8:45:20 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
A new survey on health care is revealing that you may not be getting what you pay for if you check into a U.S. hospital.
The U.S. healthcare system is more effective at delivering high costs than quality care than other developed nations, according to the study, conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD.
It found first-rate treatment for cancer but insufficient primary care for other ailments.
The study said Americans pay more than $7,900 per person for healthcare each year - far more than any other OECD country - but still die earlier than their peers in the industrialized world.
The cost of healthcare in the United States is 62 percent higher than that in Switzerland, which has a similar per capita income and also relies substantially on private health insurance.
Meanwhile, Americans receive comparatively little actual care, despite sky-high prices driven by expensive tests and procedures.
They also spend more tax money on healthcare than most other countries, the study showed.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
What's killing America? U.S. ranks 28th in life expectancy (lower than Chile and Greece) while it pays the MOST for health care
Maybe, we are being more honest in our reporting of deaths?
We need to ration it better through ObamaCare. That will solve the problem.
We report deaths of viable babies that don’t survive.
Very likely.
I have a friend who was a doctor in Russia. She told me about death certificates that came pre filled to adjust statistics. People in their 20s who died of alcohol poisoning were recorded as being in their 70s and dying of natural causes etc.
What’s killing America?
Obama
i don’t see people streaming into chile
I would say the widespread use of dangerous drugs probably ranks near the top.
I can't wait for costs to be cut by two thirds and our life expectancy to be at the very top after Obama care is enacted.
I crack myself up...
As long as a significant number of Americans continue to sit on their butts and eat until they develop measurable gravitational fields, this will be true. At 65, my last years health care cost was zero for medication and $150 for a quack doctor to look at me and tell me to go away. My future plan is to eat a little of what I like, drink a little whiskey, keep working, and die when I die. The problem isn’t with the system, it’s with the patients. And yes, some people catch bad breaks. Most however, sicken themselves.
Premature Births Are Fueling Higher Rates of Infant Mortality in U.S., Report Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/health/04infant.html
Even with the liberal spin and expected selective reporting of statistics of the NYT, the truth peeks out from under the rug in this article from two years ago. In the fact-free zone of journalism, the Daily Mail reporter can propagandize without limit.
Fully reporting infant mortality accounts for a lot of it. If you’re sick or injured, you don’t give a freep about overall life expectancy, if you’re smart. You care about survival rates and longevity for your ailment or injury.
Whose premature babies live? Ours. Whose cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and AIDS patients live? Ours. Whose accident/shooting victims live? Ours.
That coupled with vehicle deaths and homicides. Take out accidents and murders as causes of death (which medicine really can’t do much about) and the US once again ranks near the top (at the top when you consider that children who are born alive but die within hours are counted as living in the US but as not having been born in, say France).
Last month I went to visit a an elderly member of my parish..73 years old, who was having a knee replaced. Some family members were already there, so I waited outside, and was talking to the nurse at the duty station. She told me that there wer 85 beds in that orth wing..they were 97% full, all were over 65, and the vast majority were in for hip and/or knee replacements. It's like gettign a new lease on life for these seniors..and there is nowhere else that's being done..
Not to mention the deaths of gang bangers and ghetto murderers.
What’s killing America?
Obama
You’re exactly right. He is pure Evil and Evil is deadly in many ways.
So our life expectancy is about 78 years and is supposedly “well below” the average of the top country’s 79 years. A one year difference is “well below?” Are you freakin’ kidding me? With the size and eating habits of many Americans, I’m amazed we live an average of 78 years. Actually, I would bet if we took out Black Americans (life expectancy about 70 years), we’d top the lists..
“At 65, my last years health care cost was zero for medication and $150 for a quack doctor to look at me and tell me to go away”
That’s going to make you a villain of future health care propaganda, because 90% of your health care costs are going to occur in your last six months of life.
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