Posted on 08/28/2008 2:51:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
GENEVA (Reuters) - Major inequalities in health and life expectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent World Health Organization commission which on Thursday called for all countries to offer universal health care.
Huge discrepancies also exist within countries, including Scotland where a boy born in the poor Glasgow suburb of Calton can expect to live to 54, 28 years less than one born in affluent Lenzie, just across town, it said.
"The health inequities we see in the world are absolutely dramatic in their scale," Michael Marmot, a WHO health researcher, who chaired the commission, told reporters.
"Between countries we have life expectancy differences of more than 40 years. A woman in Botswana can expect to live 43 years, in Japan 86 years."
The Commission on Social Determinants of Health, composed of 19 independent experts, handed over its three-year study to the World Health Organization, a United Nations agency.
"Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale," it declared.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
of course they do. The “World” gets “health care” and the US pays for it.
U.N.’s World Food Program Cried Poverty While Sitting on Cash Stockpile of More Than $1.22 Billion
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353944,00.html
Just weeks before it announced the onset of a global food crisis and the urgent need for donors to provide at least $775 million in additional funding, the World Food Program (WFP) was sitting on a cash and near-cash stockpile of more than $1.22 billion.
-——All the more reason why sending them another $775 million is crazy.
***How bad does the UN have to get?***
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politics/danielhannan/may08/killingelephants.htm
Here’s a nice dilemma for Lefties. What if UN peacekeepers in the Congo turn out to have been encouraging elephant poaching? Would they continue to give the organisation their unconditional support?
Elephant poaching in Africa: sanctioned by the UN?
o gee imagine freaking that.
I have a feeling that WHO wants universal health care for everyone on the planet... with the U.S. footing the bill for all. I mean, it’s only fair.
We do not have a right to another person’s expertise or services. Eventually, only the incompetent will study medicine - we will all be equally miserable.
So those living in countries that have better health care should have their life expectancies shortened for the benefit of those countries that currently have sub-standard health care systems ?
In the U.S., I don’t understand how 85% of the population should be forced to sacrifice both quality and quantity of their health care for the benefit of the other 15%.
#1 Here is a band aid.
#2 Have an aspirin and don't call me in the morning.
“Health care” is not the same thing as “health insurance”.
The former is already available to every U.S. resident, legal or illegal. The latter, if universal and mandatory, would wreck every economy in the universe.
#1 Here is a band aid.
#2 Have an aspirin and don't call me in the morning.
The cost of the above health care: $1.25. The cost of the bureaucracy to deliver the a above band-aid and aspirin: $25,000.
It’s their freakin’ governments fault. When you are ruled by knuckle dragging neanderthals, odds are your healtcare ststem is going to suck. It ain’t rocket surgery.
It’s their freakin’ governments fault. When you are ruled by knuckle dragging neanderthals, odds are your healtcare system is going to suck. It ain’t rocket surgery.
I aint paying for it.
One simple reply to the headline: WHO cares about WHO?
What's the life expectancy of a man living in Montana vs a "man" living in San Francisco?
***Crickets***
LOL!
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