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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

No, this is just a problem with affluence. People fail to appreciate the staggering advances we’ve had in the past 200 years ... America has the most advanced medical technology in the world or for that matter, in human history. Granted, there are incidents of medical mishaps, but that’s the the tendency of people to focus on bad forgetting the enormously positive stories that literally saved countless people. I am very aware that America’s system has problems, no doubt about it, but we could do worse to mimic other countries.


Again i have to disagree. It´s not true that “America has the most advanced medical technology in the world “ The truth is america has acess to the “most advanced medical technology in the world” like every other industrialized western country if you are able to pay for it.
The only problem is that while “we all” have this technology it´s still limited because right now no one
has found a perfekt working system for every one.
The different systems have both winners and losers.


19 posted on 03/20/2010 2:52:53 PM PDT by darkside321
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To: darkside321
"Moreover, the United States drives much of the innovation and research on health care worldwide. Eighteen of the last 25 winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine are either U.S. citizens or individuals working here.32 U.S. companies have developed half of all new major medicines introduced worldwide over the past 20 years.33 In fact, Americans played a key role in 80 percent of the most important medical advances of the past 30 years.34"

I posted this again from above...America has a very disproportionate share in the development of medical advances and maedications. We produce and invent more. Even the research in other countries...in order to be implemented...has to be done in the U.S. Further, every country can have access, but the American people have the greatest access in the entire world. As a "non-U.S. citizen," which is how you described yourself in a post above, you clearly miss the best system available (there isn't a perfect system) and that is to pursue a purely market-based solution for health care as opposed to the proposition that some how, some way there is a government with a group of politicans that plan health care for the rest of us. In fact, Government involvement usually centers around a false notion of a right to health care or that we must provide health care for people through the government when they prove themselves unable.
20 posted on 03/20/2010 3:08:48 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan (I am defiantly proud of being part of the Religious Right in America.)
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To: darkside321

You are a just being downright honest, and you clearly didn’t read the above information provided, but instead start posting on the thread. You remind me of the head of the British Conservative Party, a man that believes the government should “subsidize” fresh fruits and veggies and provide all citizens with memberships to gyms, but rather than questioning your “conservatism” (if you have any, the WHO report ranks the United States number one in the world in responsiveness to patients’ needs in choice of provider, dignity, autonomy, timely care, and confidentiality. America is clearly number one in the most important health care category - treatment and survival of diseases, “Whether the disease is cancer, pneumonia, heart disease, or AIDS, the chances of a patient surviving are far higher in the United States than in other countries.” And America clearly not only has more access to medical technology, we possess more medical equipment. Get over your misguided sense of pride and jealousy of America.


24 posted on 03/20/2010 3:18:10 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan (I am defiantly proud of being part of the Religious Right in America.)
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