Posted on 06/18/2014 10:01:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you could pick any healthcare system in the world, it probably wouldn’t be the U.S.’s. According to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, titled “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, 2014 Update: How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally,” the U.S healthcare system is the most costly in the world, but it ranks poorly compared to other countries on most measures of performance.
Among the 11 nations assessed by The Commonwealth Fund — Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the U.S. — the U.S. ranks last, as it did in four previous editions of the report. In this edition of the report, the UK ranks first, followed closely by Switzerland.
Unlike the U.S., five other nations in this report ensure the accessibility of care through universal health systems. Obamacare is increasing the number of Americans with coverage and enhancing access to care, but the data in this report are from years prior to the full implementation of the law.
The report also reveals that the U.S. ranks behind most countries on many measures of health outcomes, quality and efficiency. Other countries have spearheaded the adoption of modern health information systems, but U.S. doctors and hospitals are catching up as they react to major monetary incentives to switch to new health information technology systems.
Although all countries show the need for improvement, the report notes that the other 10 countries spend much less on healthcare per person and as a percent of gross domestic product than does the U.S.
Image credit: The Commonwealth Fund
ive never had mondy... is it treatable?
I’ve been doing this so long I can debunk the headline without even reading the article.
I’ll go to Japan before I’d ever remotely consider the UK
RE: Ill go to Japan before Id ever remotely consider the UK
Funny they didn’t include Japan in the survey...
Monday is treatable, with a bucket of coffee and a big ol' pile of doughnuts... It will not go away, but will make it much easier to bear. Unfortunately, it always reoccurs, and there is no real cure.
This is why the U.S. life expectancy was 71.96 years back in 1974 (forty years ago) and is now 78.64 years, right?
We're not healthier, we're just sick for longer.
Word play.
From your source: “From 2006 to 2011, the number of new cases of diagnosed diabetes has shown no significant change.” Just goes to show that statistics can/are highly manipulated to get the desired result. Also, U.S. population is up over 20% 1995-2014 (so naturally more diabetes cases). http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/incidence/fig1.htm
US poulation is up 20% - cases of diabetes is up 400%.
US poulation is up 20% - cases of diabetes is up 400%.
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/incidence/fig1.htm
We’re seeing “adult-onset” diabetes show up in kids under the age of ten, which takes a couple of generations of poor dietary choices to make happen.
Look up Pottenger’s cats. Ignore the arguments about whether food should be cooked, or raw, or whatever. The critical point is that nutritional deficiencies are inherited. First generation of cats on a taurine-deficient diet suffered, second suffered more, third was either still-born or died before maturity or was sterile.
That’s exactly what has been going on with us, since the government started trying to convince everyone that a low-fat, high-carb diet, heavy on the processed foods that provide the manufacturers with the highest profits, is healthy.
Why have things gotten better, over the last few years, after so many years of getting worse? I’d say it’s because people are figuring out that the official dietary guidelines are absolute crap.
Try comparing that chart to margarine and butter sales. Margarine sales have been in a nose-dive since 1995, butter sales are at a forty-year high.
More and more people are figuring out these processed, industrial food-like substances are killing them, and that natural animal fats are essential to health.
In other words, things are getting better because more and more people have stopped listening to their doctors and the public health community on issues of nutrition.
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