Writes Linda Gorman:
If you think that the quality of your health care depends on whether your doctor keeps your medical records on an interoperable computer system or on whether the country has national health insurance - even it if it means that sick people will die while waiting for care ...
John Goodman summarizes the latest study in The Lancet:
Cancer survival varies widely across the developed world and within the United States. However, in almost every category Americans survive cancer at higher rates than patients in other developed countries. American cancer patients have a higher survival rate for every major form ...
"Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noted that the United States invests more on health care than any country, but that its health care system ranks 37th." - Denver Post, April 29 2008
A Google search reveals that many people quote this World Health ...
From Sunday's New York Times:
In the Czech Republic, you can now see a doctor for about $1.85. A day in the hospital can verge on $4. This is not cause for celebration.
For Czechs, who visit their doctors more often than anyone else in Europe, it has led to great outrage. ...
From the Daily Mail :
How the NHS is letting my father die - by a top hospital consultant
by Sarah Anderson
Eye specialist Sarah Anderson works at York Hospital . Her father Ian has been refused Sutent, a new cancer drug, which could provide the only real chance of prolonging his life. ...
What good is having medical insurance if you cannot get medical care? Peddlers of "universal health care" -- from Hillary, Obama, to Colorado congressional candidate Jared Polis -- don't get this.
"Universal health care" is false advertising for politically-controlled medicine, with government as the "single-payer" monopolistic insurer. But having coverage does ...
