1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.
2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.
3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.
4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.
5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.
6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom.
7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.
8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.
9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.
10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.
Via The Hoover Institution at Stanford, thanks to House of Eratosthenes
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Still, the American health system is plagued by several ills:
1. Insurance companies with their overkill premiums and bureaucracy.
2. Prices skyrocketing (see 1. and 3.)
3. Lack of doctors due to overabundance of legal troubles / lawyers and kids unwilling to go to medical schools as a result.
Well, #3 will doom us all, it happens in most places in the world…
#3 is the one that will never be solved by the Dems. The trial lawyers are their favorite constituency, after the labor unions.
#1 is admittedly unpleasant, but trading it for the government and higher taxes (which will keep rising) is not much of an improvement.
#2 this would take comprehensive reform of a sort that we’re unlikely ever to see. Right now it costs the pharm industry $1 billion to develop a new drug because of all the government hoops that must be jumped through.
In all, I see no panacea in Obamacare, and much, much potential harm.
#3 is the one that will never be solved by the Dems. The trial lawyers are their favorite constituency, after the labor unions.
#1 is admittedly unpleasant, but trading it for the government and higher taxes (which will keep rising) is not much of an improvement.
#2 this would take comprehensive reform of a sort that we’re unlikely ever to see. Right now it costs the pharm industry $1 billion to develop a new drug because of all the government hoops that must be jumped through.
In all, I see no panacea in Obamacare, and much, much potential harm.