It’s probably true....if they have included the VA.
someone! please tell the hordes besieging our borders and hospital ERs
The bad news is, it’s about to get worse. We’re headed for the bottom of the undeveloped nations list too.
Notice the report says “quality and ACCESS.”
100% guarentee we are No.1 in “quality” alone.
WTF- If you count access, of course we are not high on the list when the other countries are all socialized, single-payer.
THIS IS A NEWS HEADLINE.
Talk about trying to shape idiot Americans’ perceptions. Ugg, what a dirty trick.
The Commonwealth Fund who did this report.
The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.
Consider the source and take this with a grain of salt. Also, all of the British papers are listed as easy links on the lower left side of Drudge. One horror story after another about their crappy socialized health care. Yet in this article about how bad the US is we find:
“The U.S. spent $8,508 per person on healthcare in 2011 compared with $3,406 in the United Kingdom.”
And they got what they paid for!
Not to mention that the article shills that the “affordable care act” will do some good. That alone ought to tell you it is horse manure.
Look under the covers, and you will undoubtedly find that the survey finds we are insufficiently SOCIALIST.
They need to explain why people from all over the world come here for health care.
Of course everyone with higher than a 50 IQ understands that adding layer upon layer of red tape administered by lard assed government bureaucrats from far flung capitals will degrade the quality of healthcare dramatically.
But no one at ABC has a higher than 50 IQ, apparently.
Seriously, look at what the LA Times reported: that health care in the UK is number one! Yeah, in a pig’s eye it is. It’s health care is barely third world, and parts are fourth world.
The Commonwealth Fund, who did the survey, as reported by The Weekly Standard:
(2010) “The Commonwealth Fund, a liberal think tank headed by a former Democratic staffer, leads the effort (for Obamacare).
“Typical of the Commonwealth Fund is a recent study claiming that the U.S. health care system ranks last when compared with seven industrialized countries. It’s just the latest in a string of policy studies from organizations that want to see a European-style, government-run health care system brought to these shores. Democratic politicians and their allies then use those studies to bolster the case for dramatic reforms.”
Then why do world leaders come here for treatment?
The only thing you can conclude from studies like this is that the United States is the most complete and transparent country in the world with regards to healthcare.
This isn’t even a “discussable” topic with a Kardashian’ed populace limited by an 11 second attention span.
These “studies” generally put “free care” as the first, second, and third qualifier on what is meant by quality care.
Look at the demographics of the “top 10”.
What kind of access? If you need emergency care, any ER is required to give you initial, lifesaving treatment. Do they mean generic access? of course we are lower, doctors don’t spend 100s of thousands of dollars to give away their care for free. We know they aren’t talking about specialized access, cause the US is one of the best in the world if you need something special, like an MRI or have some rare disease.