This is when you know reform is needed:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

The Economist praises the Swedish health care system over the American on issues of incentives.

Article linked here:

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13899647

Also....an image worth keeping in mind for defenders of the broken system:



Now, there's something wrong with this picture. See if you can tell me what it is.....

X-posted from my own LJ.

Comments

[weswilson]

The view on healthcare should be comprehensive and should come from observation of large samples of real people over some period of time.

What do you think I've been presenting here? That is what a metric is... a way to measure. If you can't find a way to measure, then you can't say one system is any better or worse than another.