Rens Metaal wrote: > With the exception of socialized medicine, in my humble opinion > a basic human right, which should finally be taken serious...
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:25:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Mervyn Lobo <[email protected]> Rest assured that Obama (blessed be, his name) has made it crystal clear that he is going to turn the USSA health system upside down. Mario adds: Mervyn is absolutely correct. Even though there are ways in which every American can have private health insurance - as the state of Massachusetts has done - President Obama and his teleprompter have vowed to do their best for the government to run the American health care system and make it as bad as every other government run system. If he succeeds, Mervyn and his fellow Canadians will have nowhere to go when they are placed on waiting lists in the "free" Canadian system. http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/10/15/waittimes-fraser.html It may be time to post here a recent article by an American physician from the prestigious Hoover Institute at Stanford University, which lists ten little known facts about the American system, which Mervyn would apparently like to see turned on its head, as would some other people who would love to see America brought down towards the least common denominator. I have listed below the ten factual points in the article, but the article in the link below has more detail behind each point, as well as footnotes to his author's sources of information. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649 The author, Scott W. Atlas, M.D., is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at the Stanford University Medical Center. A version of this article appeared previously in the February 18, 2009, Washington Times. Excerpt: Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers and academics alike are beating the drum for a far larger government rôle in health care. Much of the public assumes their arguments are sound because the calls for change are so ubiquitous and the topic so complex. However, before turning to government as the solution, some unheralded facts about America's health care system should be considered. Fact No. 1: Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Fact No. 3: Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries Fact No. 4: Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Fact No. 5: Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Fact No. 6: Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the U.K. Fact No. 7: People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K. Fact No. 10: Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. [end of excerpt]
