From the Daily Howler comes this data.
A few more data: Trust us: Globetrekker will cover these data before the press corps does! Today, we add spending figures for Italy and France (click here). Each system is highly regarded:
Total spending on health care, per person, 2007:
United States: $7290
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Italy: $2686
Those data are simply astounding. The “press” doesn’t seem to have heard.
Are we getting twice as good care as France, 60% better than UK, 63% better than Italy? By most measures of health care efficacy, we lag these nations.
I think the money is there to cover everybody if less gets shifted to insurance company profits. How is that not correct? Let me know in comments.
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"Each system is highly regarded" to whose standards. I don't see anymore mentions about Canadacare anymore. We all know what is happening to that program.
Dr. Anne Doig, the incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association, said her country’s health care system is “sick” and “imploding,” the Canadian Press reported.
“We know there must be change,” Doig said in a recent interview. “We’re all running flat out, we’re all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands.”
Canada’s universal health care system is not giving patients optimal care, Doig added. When her colleagues from across the country gather at the CMA conference in Saskatoon Sunday, they will discuss changes that need to be made, she said.
“We all agree the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” she said.
Current president of the CMA, Dr. Robert Ouellet, will make a presentation at the conference about his findings when he toured Europe in January, and met with health groups in several countries.
Ouellet has said that “competition should be welcomed, not feared,” meaning private health insurance should have a role in the public health system.
Doig said she isn’t sure what kind of changes will be proposed when the conference wraps up, but she does know that changes have to come – and fast. She said she understands that universal health care, while good in some ways, has not always been helpful for sick people or their families.
"(Canadians) have to understand that the system that we have right now — if it keeps on going without change — is not sustainable," Doig said.
August 18, 2009 6:48 PM
Actually, I am very happy with my health care and medical coverage and believe I am getting my money's worth. When and if that changes I will look elsewhere, I can take care of that much. Thanks for asking.
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