On Tuesday 26 September 2006 05:57 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > 1/4 of this country would prefer Canada's. Period. Even crappy > healthcare beats *no* healthcare. > > No one is saying that you can't pay for *better* healthcare. Feel free. > If you want to fund your doctor more, fine. > > However, we need a minimum. It costs our whole *society* not to have > that minimum. We wind up with emergency room visits which need to be > corrected by surgery instead of $4 of antibiotics or a dietary change. > We wind up with communicable disease outbreaks that require mobilizing > the CDC rather than vaccinations. We wind up with drug resistant > bacteria because people won't/can't take full courses of treatments. > > -a Generally agreed.
For some facts try The U.S. does not have the best health care system in the world - it has the best emergency care system in the world. Advanced U.S. medical technology has not translated into better health statistics for its citizens; indeed, the U.S. ranks near the bottom in list after list of international comparisons. Part of the problem is that there is more profit in a pound of cure than an ounce of prevention. Another part of the problem is that America has the highest level of poverty and income inequality among all rich nations, and poverty affects one's health much more than the limited ministrations of a formal health care system. http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-healthcare.htm BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
