> Larry wrote: > compared US health care to Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland and England. > The US came out the worst. >
Yeah but what's being compared? The US has the best *medicine* in the World, period. If you want top care from top doctors at top hospitals with top access to last most advanced treatments, you go to the US. The problem is reconciling that with average care. Not everyone that walks into a clinic for a semi-yearly physical can afford $20,000 of tests. The struggle the US has starts at defining what standard the average person should get, how and when to escalate that standard, and how to pay for all of it. There is a great tie-in with the Financial Crisis: our society funneled our best and brightest into finance. Consequently we can create massively dense derivatives contracts, but if you get pancreatic cancer you're probably dead. It's a bit of a joke with some Jewish friends that 30 years ago the highest honor a mother could have was saying, "this my son, the dock-ta" and now it's "this my son, the ban-ka" If health care is our highest priority, then our society needs to figure out how to give its highest rewards (recognition, honor, money) for accomplishments in the profession. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293562 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
