Thursday, April 05, 2012
We're Number 1!
If you turn the rankings upside down and call it the Worst In Preventable Deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations. If you do look at it that way we top the list but as presented, the US with its alleged "best healthcare in the world", comes in dead last(pun intended).
France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.If you are privileged to have access to healthcare, you may live. The rest of you can make your funeral arrangements now. You will need them sooner than if you lived in a civilized nation.
If the U.S. health care system performed as well as those of those top three countries, there would be 101,000 fewer deaths in the United States per year, according to researchers writing in the journal Health Affairs.
Researchers Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tracked deaths that they deemed could have been prevented by access to timely and effective health care, and ranked nations on how they did.
They called such deaths an important way to gauge the performance of a country's health care system.
Nolte said the large number of Americans who lack any type of health insurance -- about 47 million people in a country of about 300 million, according to U.S. government estimates -- probably was a key factor in the poor showing of the United States compared to other industrialized nations in the study.
"I wouldn't say it (the last-place ranking) is a condemnation, because I think health care in the U.S. is pretty good if you have access.
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"If you are privileged to have access to healthcare, you may live. The rest of you can make your funeral arrangements now."
That be me.
That be me.
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