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.
That’s because France doesn’t try to prevent any deaths, they just let people die in that Socialist country they run.
“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.”
These folks wouldn’t be connected to that peroper(never wrong) British Publication the Lancet, would they? That’s the Lancet with those laughable Iraq death rates. That’s the Lancet who’s numeral anslysis techniques have been thoroughly discredited by real mathematicians...not Drs, lawyers, and journalists.
When I was in Marseilles last summer, out guide told us they had a shortage of doctors in France. She said 40% of the people with cancer in her region never get to see an oncologist. She wasn’t too impressed with their system.
Just another push for US socialized medicine.
Such nice round numbers. They fit the shape of the colons from which they were pulled.
So all we need is a nanny state with nationalized health care and we will become a paradise????
Yes, it’s always about the health insurance nowadays. Remember that election cycle when it was always about “the children”?
Even with health insurance, many people would be too irresponsible and lazy to do something until crisis time. Look at all the obesity here now. A certain percentage of the country doesn’t care about its health until it’s too late. That won’t change with universal care. All that will change is the dumbing down of the greatest health care the world has ever seen.
/sarc
That’s getting boring.
Every year there is a study (or a “movie”!) satying that the French have the best healthcare and the US one of the worst.
I am sure we could easily find some links to some studies saying the opposite but we have better things to do.
Face it, the French eat less, therefore fewer die of fat-related diseases. Eating less and weighing less would contribute to preventing deaths in the US far more than insurance coverage would.
In the end, most people die of stupidity.
Sounds like BS to me.
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.