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What’s Everyone Think About Us Being #37 On The Who’s List For The Best Health Care System?

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 6:50
This news item was posted in Medical Information category and has 3 Comments so far.

Patients may be satisfied in America, but not everyone gets to be a patient. 47 million are uninsured and are rarely patients – until it’s too late. In the rest of the Western world, everyone and anyone can be a patient because everyone is covered. (And don’t face exclusions for pre-existing conditions, co-pays, deductibles, and costly monthly premiums).
And there are even more Americans who keep themselves out of the system because of cost – in the United States, 24 percent of the population did not get medical care due to cost. That number is 5 percent in Canada, and 3 percent in the UK.
The fact that the healthcare system in an impoverished nation crippled by our decades-old blockade (including medical supplies and drugs) ranks so closely to ours is ridiculous.
Although Cuba ranks lower overall than the United States, it still has a lower infant mortality rate and longer life span.
Cuba offers healthcare to absolutely everyone!

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3 Responses to “What’s Everyone Think About Us Being #37 On The Who’s List For The Best Health Care System?”

  1. Nicole said on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 12:46

    I agree, 37th is bad……I think i could handle like 15th, but shoudlnt’ something be done? I don’t quite understand America’s view on a lot of things. My friend told me today his insurance fought him over a pill and told him to take an OTC so that way he’d be spending about $100/mo instead of them spending it.
    Also, what’s with European countries getting a minimum of 5 weeks vacation? Why can’t we be more like France in some ways? Or like Canada and stay out of everyone else’s military business?
    Just like I dont’ understand how EVERY single public school around us is losing the funding for arts and gym…….where is all this money going? Someone needs to get in there and attempt to get rid of some of the corruption and poor spending of our govt. Americans need to be less greedy…..once the people up top get to $1 million they’ll hurt whoever is in their way to get $10 million

  2. pluto said on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 14:17

    are you sure you trust the criteria of the WHO. might they have their own political point of view. hmmmm

  3. tamarind said on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 14:45

    We get what we pay for…
    i.e. in other countries, taxes are imposed on sufficiently to spread the benefit of healthcare across the general population. We have reduced taxes on the rich through Bush’s tax revisions – at the expense of social programs that should be benefiting American citizens.

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