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U.S. health care: Do We Really Spend More and Get Less?
Spending computations are inaccurate. [T]here is another way to assess the cost of health care. We can count up the real resources being used. … doctors per capita, more hospital beds, etc.,… On this score, the United States looks really good. Continue reading
Health care & the myth of United States’ poor life expectancy
If you really want to compare medical care outcomes in different countries, just looking at life expectancy is wrong. The best way to do it is [to measure survival rates and longevity] at the point of medical intervention. Continue reading
Thank U.S. medical care for extending Steve Jobs’ life
Had Jobs been under the care of the British National Health Service (NHS) or the Canadian Medicare system, he almost certainly would have died two years earlier. That would have been a major loss for the world, by anyone’s reckoning. Continue reading
How Obamacare will decrease health care access for the poor
“ObamaCare, by lowering the money price of care for almost everybody while doing nothing to change supply, will intensify non-price rationing and may actually make access to care more difficult for those with the least financial resources.” – John Goodman Continue reading
Hey, Paul Krugman, patients should be consumers, not helpless pawns in an authoritarian politically-controlled health care system you support
Nobel-prize winner & New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman is demonstrates how little he knows about health care policy. Let me count the ways. Continue reading
“Health care” differs from “medical care”
Thomas Sowell makes an excellent point: … Even in matters of life and death, too many people accept words instead of thinking, leaving themselves wide open to people who are clever at spinning words. The whole controversy about “health care … Continue reading
Posted in myths & fallacies
Tagged international comparisons, life expectancy, Thomas Sowell
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No equal access with Germany’s “universal” health care
Many people support government-controlled health care because they think it will provide everyone with equal access to medical treatment, regardless of their ability to pay. Ronald Bachman of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation recently visited Germany with other health care … Continue reading
Posted in PPC, regulation
Tagged equality, global budget, health care Germany, international comparisons
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How U.S. health care is already similar to Europe’s
Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation has written about this in a recent Forbes column, The Myth Of Free Market Health Care In America. Some excerpts: But apart from England, most European countries have a public-private blend, not unlike what … Continue reading
What’s right about United States health care
I’m not about to defend health care the the United States, which is very much socialized as it is. Given the FDA, the tax treatment of insurance responsible for employer-based insurance, over-consumption and much of the pre-existing condition issue, not … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada health, international comparisons
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United States has best cancer survival rates
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 … Continue reading