U.S. scores dead last again in healthcare study

On 6/28/2010 5:29 PM, Strabo wrote:
> Beam Me Up Scotty wrote:
>> On 6/24/2010 9:52 AM, edspyhill01 wrote:
>>> On Jun 24, 5:02 am, Cliff
>>> wrote:
>>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65M0SU20100623?type=domesticNew…
>>>>
>>>> “U.S. scores dead last again in healthcare study”
>>>> [
>>>> Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed
>>>> countries on
>>>> healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the
>>>> least equitable
>>>> system, according to a report released on Wednesday.
>>>>
>>>> The United States ranked last when compared to six other countries
>>>> -- Britain,
>>>> Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, the
>>>> Commonwealth Fund
>>>> report found.
>>>> ....
>>>> The current report uses data from nationally representative patient and
>>>> physician surveys in seven countries in 2007, 2008, and 2009. It is
>>>> available
>>>> here
>>>> http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Fund-Reports/201.....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In 2007, health spending was $7,290 per person in the United States,
>>>> more than
>>>> double that of any other country in the survey.
>>>>
>>>> Australians spent $3,357, Canadians $3,895, Germans $3,588, the
>>>> Netherlands
>>>> $3,837 and Britons spent $2,992 per capita on health in 2007. New
>>>> Zealand spent
>>>> the least at $2,454.
>>>>
>>>> This is a big rise from the Fund's last similar survey, in 2007,
>>>> which found
>>>> Americans spent $6,697 per capita on healthcare in 2005, or 16
>>>> percent of gross
>>>> domestic product.
>>>>
>>>> "We rank last on safety and do poorly on several dimensions of
>>>> quality," Schoen
>>>> told reporters. "We do particularly poorly on going without care
>>>> because of
>>>> cost. And we also do surprisingly poorly on access to primary care and
>>>> after-hours care."
>>>> ...
>>>> Every other system covers all its citizens, the report noted and
>>>> said the U.S.
>>>> system, which leaves 46 million Americans or 15 percent of the
>>>> population
>>>> without health insurance, is the most unfair.
>>>>
>>>> "The lower the performance score for equity, the lower the
>>>> performance on other
>>>> measures. This suggests that, when a country fails to meet the needs
>>>> of the most
>>>> vulnerable, it also fails to meet the needs of the average citizen,"
>>>> the report
>>>> reads.
>>>> ...
>>>> ]
>>>>
>>>> Lets all give the rethugs (the party of NO) a big hand for a job
>>>> well done
>>>> (for their cronies).
>>>> I’ll not suggest where to put that hand.
>>>> –
>>>> Cliff
>>> You are trying to stop the god-given American way of life – a
>>> Christian-driven miserable life.
>>
>>
>> It seems all leftists are unhappy people….
>>
>>
>> In charge and still unhappy, and you won’t be happy until we are all
>> equally unhappy.
>>
>
> The belief in an equality of outcomes is sacred to cookie-cutter
> communists.
>

You can’t make everyone a genius, so all that’s left for the #Socialists
to do is make everyone idiots….. That’s the only option for the
Socialists that want to force everyone to be equal.

They have a great head start on it since about 50% of Americans are
stupid and/or leftists.