The United States has the #1 healthcare in the world.
When presidents of countries need major surgeries most come to the USA!
Most of these studies have signicant biases (flaws) which negate the findings.
The key is to understand how studies are made and which biases are associated with them
Originally Posted by KRiggins
If money is no object, and you have a lot, or suck the cock (or fist the pussy) of an insurance executive.
Yes it is only the best health care in the world when your rich or wealthy, or famous.
By the way two people I know have flown to London to get cancer treatment, because the cost was too great here in the US.
Many Americans have been going to other countries for health care, and find out that they get better care in other countries than they do here in the US.
Originally Posted by Stan.Dupp
No one even discusses health care without the word insurance. Insurance is a form of business completely unrelated to the actual creation of any product or service. It has no true value. Insurance is no different than the prison scam where two prisoners team up, one of them threatens the new guy the and the other comes by and offers to protect the new guy for a carton of smokes a week. The only difference between that scam and any form of insurance is the support, and in many cases the mandate, of a government that by definition must be corrupt for endorsing such a practice.
Whether Obama is making this worse or better is beyond me, but it certainly didn't start with him. I blame doctors, who took an oath to heal but follow the insurance dollar over the path of integrity. I obviously find insurance companies at fault, merely by existing. Big Pharma plays a part, as does Madison Ave. The drug commercials are ridiculous. We are to blame ourselves, for playing ball and for not taking better care of ourselves.
Socialize medicine. I don't have all the answers but a good starting point seems to be that if someone is sick, use all available resources to make them better, regardless of race, religion, income, affiliation, education, age, sex, sexual preference, dexterity, etc. Not for profit, just because.
Of fuck, there I go, being all childish and idealistic again. Good day.