[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I put in bold the words you will want to pay attention to.

What we have here is not a ranking of the world's healthcare systems.

What we have here is a ranking of the world's socialist systems.

Now granted, they do take into account for some healthcare issues. But the quality of socialism seems to be just as big of an issue, if not bigger, than the quality of health.

With all this talk of healthcare going on, I figured this was a good thing to repost. In this light, reposts do have value.

Especially given the majority media that we have, people are gonna miss this stuff.

This list where the US comes in 37th and france comes out on top, we conservatives should be happy about this. It means our socialism isn't as good as france's.(circa 2000)

[bvw]

Thanks for a good post!

[ElayneJ]

Thank you. Clearly there was some kind of distortion here in evaluating US healthcare. This explains it.

[secret garden]

This is from nine years ago?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

These studies do not seem to take into account demographics. For example, our system is flooded with Third World arrivals who have virtually destroyed the Emergency Rooms here in Southern California. They quite typically get Medicaid(Medi-Cal here in California) Which puts further upward pressure on health care prices i.e. increased demand results in increased doctor fees for the rest of us.

[Don Corleone]

The U. S. health system spends a higher portion of its gross domestic product than any other country but ranks 37 out of 191 countries according to its performance, the report finds.

Then why do the worlds big shots all come here when they have an owie?

[Para-Ord.45]

WHO’s FoolingWho? The World Health Organization’s Problematic Ranking of Health Care Systems Those who cite the WHO rankings typically present them as an objective measure of the relative performance of national health care systems. They are not. TheWHOrankings depend crucially on a number of underlying assumptions— some of them logically incoherent, some characterized by substantialuncertainty, and some rooted in ideological beliefs and values that not everyone shares. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9236

[socialismisinsidious]

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[CharlesWayneCT]

They should compare the health care of the lowest 10% income of each country. i’m betting USA comes out first.