Posted on 01/08/2008 8:38:21 AM PST by mngran2
France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.
If the U.S. health care system performed as well as those of those top three countries, there would be 101,000 fewer deaths in the United States per year, according to researchers writing in the journal Health Affairs.
Researchers ... of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tracked deaths that they deemed could have been prevented by access to timely and effective health care, and ranked nations on how they did.
They called such deaths an important way to gauge the performance of a countrys health care system.
Nolte said the large number of Americans who lack any type of health insurance about 47 million people in a country of about 300 million, according to U.S. government estimates probably was a key factor in the poor showing of the United States compared to other industrialized nations in the study.
I wouldnt say it (the last-place ranking) is a condemnation, because I think health care in the U.S. is pretty good if you have access. But if you dont, I think thats the main problem, isnt it? Nolte said in a telephone interview.
In establishing their rankings, the researchers considered deaths before age 75 from numerous causes, including heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, diabetes, certain bacterial infections and complications of common surgical procedures.
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France did best with 64.8 deaths deemed preventable by timely and effective health care per 100,000 people, in the study period of 2002 and 2003. Japan had 71.2 and Australia had 71.3 such deaths per 100,000 people. The United States had 109.7 such deaths per 100,000 people, the researchers said.
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Maybe they’ll just pull a hillary and announce, “It hurts my feelings”
Can’t have that, you know. *rolls eyes*
I hate the degree to which we’ve allowed PC to trump everything. I still remember in the 80s, somebody asked Orrin Hatch (back when he was still worth something) about whether Republicans have “heart.” His answer was, “ Actually, I have the heart of a Democrat (slight pause) I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
“Remember all the leftist said we shouldn’t respond to 9/11 because we will make the radical Muslims mad at us? “
That’s right, so absurb!
Do you have a link to something like that so I could post this on a forum where I currently have a discussion about this?
Thanks.
Or you can just pull out Hitler's pulling wool over the European's eyes before WW2...
Sounds like BS to me.
How about those who die from AIDS?
I bet that isn’t included in “preventable deaths”.
This is nuts! The European healthcare system is based on delay and deny triage. So, what the article is actually saying is that patients who see a doctor with a treatable disease or injury and are still ailing when they get to the doctor after the mandatory three month waiting period, have a better cure rate than US patients that are treated in emergency rooms and clinics.
“sorry man, I am only quoting from memories. I’m sure if you do a google, you will find plenty of articles and posts by liberals urging us to do nothing and hopefully, “they” will go away and not hurt us anymore...”
Thanks anyway, I will search this way but I just can’t base my critics on some quotes from some anonymous liberal bloggers. We also have some conservatives claiming we should nuke all muslim countries or turn their mosques into churches.
A few extremists points of views does not help in building theories.
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