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

[kadeshaderow.livejournal.com]

By the way, does this bar graph include R&D on various pharmaceuticals and/or life-saving devices?

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

It does, since US customers have to inadvertently bear that cost.

[policraticus.livejournal.com]

Why shouldn't the customers bear the cost of the R&D money spent to develop devices to save the lives of health care customers? Car buyers bear the cost of the R&D that goes into new automobile technology, TV buyer bear teh cost of the R&D that goes into new TV technology, etc, etc, etc.

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

most R&D cost for new drugs is paid for by US consumers

this is also due to one-sided laws passed by US government