I've become very adapt in recognizing when my attempt to educate will fall on death ears....
Now, if you'd said you were adept at recognizing when your attempt to education would fall on deaf ears, we might be able to get somewhere...
And single payer is shit too.
Seems to work in other countries. Apparently you think Americans aren't smart enough to make it work here.
Yes, it works so well in Canada that their politicians come to the USA for their medical procedures. Single payer is great so long as you're not truly sick. If you get a broken leg or some such, it's great. Get cancer though and you're screwed as 52,000 of them figured out so they left to get treatment so they could live.
More than 52,000 Canadians travelled abroad for health care last year, study finds
From article:
Canada had the second-worst overall ranking among the health care systems of 11 industrialized nations and ranked last in the wait-time category.
Only the American health care system ranked worse overall.
( I would imagine the 1.1% are the wealthy who can pay cash for services. Many of our people , who can afford it goes else where for treatment. The wealthy and elites , like Cheney can get a heart at his age and health , he had to pay cash for it. It would of never happened for the Average Joe.
First off, you need to notice that for that single solitary paragraph, they switched the information source. The entire article is talking about the Frazier Institute data, except for this one snipit, where they randomly bring up the Commonwealth Fund, which is known to be bias in favor of gov-care.
Additionally, they didn't actually list the publication where they made the claims from. Apparently so we couldn't look up the details of the claim.
So I happen to look up Commonwealth Fund 2014 study, which led me to the their routine "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" report. This report is routinely bonkers.
Couple of things to point out about this.
Notice where we got 11s?
Cost-related problems. Now if you actually take the time to read the description, it has nothing to do with getting care. If you get a bill for your care.... that's a cost-related problem.
So you could get the best treatment available on the planet today... and if you get a bill for that treatment, that's a cost-related problem, which is a negative, no matter how well you are treated and cured.
Equality. So if you get the best treatment in the world, doesn't matter, because it's not equal to someone else.
Our health care system would score better, if everyone got zero treatment, because that would be "equal". Which is more important than helping people.
Healthy Lives. If I choose to smoke, I am living a less healthy life. Therefore obviously my health care system is at fault. Apparently doctors are supposed to run around town, spraying out smokers with water. Then our score would be higher.
Again, has NOTHING to do with the quality of the care. We could have the best care on the face of the Earth, and if some teenagers overdose on heroin, that means our hospitals suck. They should have known, and sent a nurse to steal the needles.
Efficiency. Once again, the left-wing has a massive part in this. If I got to General Practitioner A, and he does a bunch of tests, and then sends me to see specialists B, guess what Specialist B is going to do? All the same tests. Because if he doesn't test, and GP A missed something, and I find out Specialist B didn't check, because he just assumed GP A did all the tests.... guess who gets sued? So of course he's going to do a bunch of redundant tests.
Additionally, we just passed a massive amount of health care regulations and laws, that require tons of paperwork and administration.
And lastly, having insurance tied to the work place, also increases administration costs. And why do most companies have company sponsored health care? Aside from the Obama Care requiring it? Because of the tax deduction.
All three of those reasons are left-wing reasons, and then you want to rank us worst for this?
So what we see is that one of the areas we have an 11, is due to left-wing policies, and the other three areas are irrelevant to health care.
Now if that is not enough to discredit this BS from the left-wing pro-gov-care Commonwealth Fund.... all you have to do is look at the opposite end, and see who they ranked number 1. The UK....
Even England itself, acknowledges this.
Experts say England's lower survival rates may be attributed to patients being unaware of symptoms and to misdiagnosis by GPs. Patients may also not have been offered the most effective forms of surgery or the latest drugs.
Wait, what?? They are not OFFERED the most effective drugs and surgeries?
But see.... it's equal...... equally bad..... is still equal. And therefore it's better than the US. It's better than even most of the rest of Europe!
Equal, even equal crap, is equally good crap. And no cost-related problems! Crappy free care, is better than costly effective care. Doesn't matter if you die... because it cost you nothing!
Need more proof?
SkyNews did a whole report on why NHS is under threat.
NHS Crisis: Why Are Services Under Threat?
The system is failing. They are under staffed. Under funded (even though they pay almost triple the tax we do). They are cutting services. Cutting surgeries. Cutting drug availability.
This is what the left-wing Commonwealth Fund declared number 1 system over all? Zero credibility.
