Your opinions are mostly very well thought out but on this point you are in error. Statistics on infant mortality, etc. bear out that the U.S. only has good health care for people who pay for premium service and those other countries beat us by pretty much every benchmark, including cost efficiency.
So what's the international standard on infant mortality again? Because you know that there isn't one, right?
It's the same with a lot of these statistics - our life expectancy is hurt by our homicide rate, which health care has little to do with. Our cost efficiency doesn't take into effect our innovations, which, of course, cost more.
We may spend more, but we get more bang for our buck when the chips are down, and most people don't pay anything close to $6000 per capita out of pocket (as the graph notes).
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Date: 13/8/09 20:55 (UTC)Most of the ones listed below the US on the list.
Your opinions are mostly very well thought out but on this point you are in error. Statistics on infant mortality, etc. bear out that the U.S. only has good health care for people who pay for premium service and those other countries beat us by pretty much every benchmark, including cost efficiency.
So what's the international standard on infant mortality again? Because you know that there isn't one, right?
It's the same with a lot of these statistics - our life expectancy is hurt by our homicide rate, which health care has little to do with. Our cost efficiency doesn't take into effect our innovations, which, of course, cost more.
We may spend more, but we get more bang for our buck when the chips are down, and most people don't pay anything close to $6000 per capita out of pocket (as the graph notes).