Tell that to the 15,000 French elderly who died in the heat wave a few years back.
I’d say Reuters health care raters are just about as reliable as their middle east faux-tographers
You know, we don't have those in the US of A...
“London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tracked deaths that they deemed could have been prevented by access to timely and effective health care”
Yep - a completely OBJECTIVE standard. Like that Lancet study of Iraq War deaths.
Hmmm. Wonder how overall longevity compares?
Yeah, running away will certainly prevent deaths.
We don’t have hundreds of cars torched every night like France, do we?
"Hold muh champagne!" just isn't a cultural phenomenon over there. ;)
““I wouldn’t 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 don’t, I think that’s the main problem, isn’t it?” Nolte said in a telephone interview.”
Everyone has access to health care in the US, whether you can pay for it or not.
What a joke.
The best way to combat preventable deaths is to stay away from doctors and hospitals. Mistakes made in hospitals cause over 100,000 deaths a year, and this doesn’t count the thousands who die from infections picked up while in the hospital. Just ask Glen Beck about that.
We have only just begun the new, dedicated campaign by the left and the MSM. The new vogue in the MSM is to point out how the US is diminishing in status compared to the rest of the world. The value of the dollar, the emergence of China, the living standards of the British, health of the French, and on and on. Watch for this more and more running up to the 2008 election. Watch for the MSM to now begin to cast Obama as the agent of hope for a declining US.
France health care system is a big mess with a huge deficit which is going worth and worth.
No more new french doctors want to work in this system.
Legal and illegal immigrants with all children and families can have free health cares.
It is an announced disastre but everything’s fine before the fatal crash when we will meet the ground.
Guess the UK searchers didn’t take in consideration the economic criteria....
I am a french doctor and i would be curious to see the details of their study
“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.
Such deaths accounted for 23 percent of overall deaths in men and 32 percent of deaths in women, the researchers said.”
So the other 68% to 77% died from old age, viruses, accidents or violence, right?
That brings us back to the behaviorial causes of deaths over which no amount of government health care or private health insurance could effect any control.
I don’ know anything about the “Researchers ... of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine”. Is there any particular reason I should trust them, other than they are all wearing white coats?
The pitch is: "You want the Government to take care of you you must vote for Obama".
The sad fact is our public education system has prepared an entire generation (or two) to accept this jump on the socialist bandwagon!
Abortion is a preventable death.
The biggest factor in the number of "preventable deaths" in the U.S. compared to other industrialized nations is our lower population density. The problem with "access to health care" in many parts of the U.S. is a function of the rural character of large portions of this country, not a lack of medical insurance.
This is why, for example, deaths in auto accidents have become very rare in a place like New York City -- which has very heavy traffic as well as some of the worst drivers on the planet. It's simply not that easy to die in a car accident if your accident occurs in close proximity to some of the top trauma centers in the world.
If you look at any list of nations in the world as ranked according to the alleged quality of their health care systems, you'll find a disproportionate number of densely-populated countries among them -- including Japan, Singapore, Malta, Luxembourg, etc.
This is such b.s.
If health care is so bad here and unavailable to poor people, why is it that relatives of illegals come here to ‘vacation’ when they get a bad diagnosis from a Mexican doctor?
These relatives come straight from the airport to the ER where they are immediately hospitalized. And you and I pay for their care.