Health Outcomes in Canada v US

[Diuretic]

What's with the anti-reformers always comparing us to Canada, or the UK, with all the other nations in the world to compare to?

Let me see.......both countries have cranky reactionary newspapers that love to take isolated examples of problems and portray them as being produced by systemic flaws in the health care system being examined?

 

[Care4all]

What's with the anti-reformers always comparing us to Canada, or the UK, with all the other nations in the world to compare to?

they want to compare us with only struggling heath care systems....?

 

[Care4all]

yeah too bad America is still the #1 destination for Medical Tourism...

yes! America still has the best medical care that one can BUY....

no question, if you got money and are in a foreign country, you would come here to be treated by specialists if you had acquired any kind of complicated disease.

 

[Andrew2382]

Who Are the Uninsured? | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary

For the record, according to the latest figures from the Census Bureau, 45.6 million Americans currently lack health insurance. This is actually down slightly from the 47 million that were uninsured in 2006. However, those numbers don't tell the whole story.

Roughly one quarter of those counted as uninsured — 12 million people — are eligible for Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, but haven't enrolled. This includes 64 percent of all uninsured children, and 29 percent of parents with children. Since these people would be enrolled in those programs automatically if they went to the hospital for care, calling them uninsured is really a smokescreen.

Another 10 million uninsured "Americans" are, at least technically, not Americans. Approximately 5.6 million are illegal immigrants, and another 4.4 million are legal immigrants but not citizens.

And most of the uninsured are young and in good health. According to the CBO, roughly 60 percent are under the age of 35, and fully 86 percent report that they are in good or excellent health.

Finally, when we hear about 45 million Americans without health insurance, it conjures up the notion that all of those are born without health insurance, die without health insurance, and are never insured in between. The reality is that most people without health insurance are uninsured for a relatively short period of time.

Only about 30 percent of the uninsured remain so for more than a year, approximately 16 percent for two years, and less than 2.5 percent for three years or longer. About half are uninsured for six months or less. Notably, because health insurance is too often tied to employment, the working poor who cycle in and out of the job market also cycle in and out of health insurance.





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[Diuretic]

Hardly a strong endorsement there Andrew. People lose health insurance when they lose their job. There is the single reason for reform, if no other existed that would be sufficient.

 

[auditor0007]

Hardly a strong endorsement there Andrew. People lose health insurance when they lose their job. There is the single reason for reform, if no other existed that would be sufficient.

We know that if nothing changes, insurance rates will double in the next ten years. Then how many will be without health insurance? And with more and more going to healthcare, what will be left for other necessities? How will this effect the overall economy? My guess is that it will lead to the worst economy this country has seen since the Great Depression. And last of all, it will eventually lead to the shortening of our lifespan.

 

[veritas]

What's with the anti-reformers always comparing us to Canada, or the UK, with all the other nations in the world to compare to?

they want to compare us with only struggling heath care systems....?

We don't have a system, except for the VA.

And to compare right off the bat, the other countries cover everybody, and we don't. So we are last.