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 ...
“Medications and processed food are large contributors, look online for deaths from prescription medication, it is huge.”
Simply another failed institution in the once great America.
Too much ineffective government, too many greedy crooks, virtually no ethics anymore.
Same as government itself, entertainment, sports, finance, etc.
75 % of deaths from prescription drugs are from pain killer overdoses, and a lot of the rest are from taking someone elses meds.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/11/01/prescription-drug-deaths-skyrocket/
The No. 1 Cause of Accidental Death in the U.S. - Are You at Risk? By Dr. Mercola - November 24 2011
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/24/modern-medicine-disease-treatments.aspx?e_cid=20111124_DNL_art_1
The whole article is a good read.
A non peer-reviewed article, published by two people who have no institutional affiliation, one of whom gives their address as a P.O. Box, using nothing but statistical analysis to derive a correlation that supports what appears to be a predetermined conclusion?
No, I am not at all convinced.
Google tells me that Miller is a journalist, and Goldman is a computer scientist. In other words, they are not researchers and have no research training. I’m even less convinced.
Show me meaningful analysis. Show me where the infant mortality was compared, apples to apples—infants from the same backgrounds, vaccinated vs. non-vaccinated.
I happen to know, because I’ve read hundreds of statistical analyses (I hesitate to call them “studies” because they contain no experimental data), and I shared an office with a statistician for three years, that the vast majority of statistical analyses are junk. Get a good statistician to analyze the data, and almost any hypothesis can be “proven” with statistics. It all depends on which number sets are included, and how they’re combined.
Chelation will help. Chelation is an intervenous feeding into the blood to rermove plaque. I have had Chelation on and off since heart surgery in Jan 1996. It takes about 2 hours, I have talked to dozens who have taken it over the years. Many do Chelation when MD’s can no longer operate on their hearts. If you are interested let me know what city you are in and I should be able to find someone for you. Some states the AMA makes it difficult for them to operate and to advertise.
A listing of infant mortality? What is that supposed to demonstrate?
It says nothing of the causes of death, nor does it show to what extent differences in methodology (i.e. what the criteria are for counting a death as an infant death rather than a miscarriage) affect the relative rankings.
Nor does it show any cause and effect relationships for any type of medical care provided or not provided to infants.
It is merely a list.
—”A listing of infant mortality? What is that supposed to demonstrate?”
Think of it as a termagancy test. Congratulations, you passed.
Cheers
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