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Health care system performance rankings of the United States compared to ten other high-income countries in 2021

Norway	1
Netherlands	2
Australia	3
United Kingdom	4
Germany	5
New Zealand	6
Sweden	7
France	8
Switzerland	9
Canada	10
United States	11

According to a 2021 health care systems ranking among selected high-income countries, the U.S. came last in the overall ranking of its health care system performance. The overall ranking was based on five performance categories, including access to care, care processes, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes.

Health care system performance rankings of select countries Worldwide 2021 | Statista

According to a 2021 health care systems ranking among selected high-income countries, the U.S.

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Percentage of respondents worldwide who were satisfied with their country's national health system as of 2019, by country

UK is ranked 4, US is ranked 21

Public satisfaction with national health systems by country worldwide 2019 | Statista

According to the findings of a survey by IPSOS, satisfaction with national health systema varies widely between countries.

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Maternal mortality rates worldwide in 2019, by country(per 100,000 live births)

UK - 6.5, US - 17.4

Maternal mortality rate by country worldwide | Statista

Colombia has the highest rate of maternal mortality among OECD countries. The U.S. has a higher rate of maternal mortality compared to similar countries.

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Investpedia

How U.S. Healthcare Costs Compare to Other Countries, By AARON HANKIN​

Updated June 01, 2022​

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How Do U.S. Healthcare Costs Compare to Other Countries?​

The International Federation of Health Plans Comparative Price Report details healthcare products and services around the world. Its most recent survey, from 2017, looked at seven countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain.1


Results showed that not only were U.S. healthcare costs higher compared to the other countries in the survey, but there was also a significant difference in what people pay in the U.S. for the same drug or medical procedure...
each time they have an item, an episode of care, it costs two or three or five times more than it should, by international standards...

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Where Does the U.S. Rank in Healthcare?​

Among high-income countries, the U.S. ranks at the bottom in terms of cost compared to positive outcomes.​

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Which Countries Have Better Healthcare Than the U.S.?​

Almost every other high-income country provides better and more affordable healthcare than the U.S. Several lower-income countries also rank higher...​

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Which Healthcare System Is Better, the U.S. or U.K.?​

The U.K.'s healthcare system is low-cost and generally ranks quite highly. Certainly higher than the U.S.​

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6 Reasons Healthcare Is So Expensive in the U.S.

Here's why healthcare in the United States is so expensive, but the quality of care in the U.S. still ranks low among developed countries.

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How to judge healthcare:

a) life expectancy: many people die for reasons that can’t be controlled the medical profession, such as auto accidents, murder, etc., and once you factor out care crashes and homicides, the US ranks number one in worldwide life expectancy!

“One often-heard argument, voiced by the New York Times' Paul Krugman and others, is that America lags behind other countries in crude health outcomes. But such outcomes reflect a mosaic of factors, such as diet, lifestyle, drug use and cultural values. It pains me as a doctor to say this, but health care is just one factor in health.

In The Business of Health, Robert Ohsfeldt and John Schneider factor out intentional and unintentional injuries from life-expectancy statistics and find that Americans who don't die in car crashes or homicides outlive people in any other Western country.

And if we measure a health care system by how well it serves its sick citizens, American medicine excels.

http://www.davepetno.com/blog/index.php?itemid=30

She cites a study by Professors Ohsfeldt and Schneider at the University of Iowa, which shows that, if you leave out people who are victims of homicide or who die in automobile accidents, Americans live longer than people in any other Western country.

http://www.creators.com/conservative/thomas-sowell/medical-care-facts-and-fables.html

" The standardized estimate of life expectancy at birth is the mean of the predicted value for each country over the period 1980–99. As shown in table 1-5, the raw (not standardized) mean life expectancy at birth for the United States over this period was 75.3 years, compared to 78.7 years for Japan, 78.0 years for Iceland, and 77.7 years for Sweden. However, after accounting for the unusually high fatal-injury rates in the United States, the estimate of standardized life expectancy at birth is 76.9 years, which is higher than the estimates for any other OECD country." http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/-the-business-of-health_110115929760.pdf

 

[PoliticalChic]

Infanticide is illegal in the United States. Until the recent Supreme Court decision, abortion was legal, and frequently practiced.

Of course, as in nearly every post you author.....that's a lie.



When children were born in ancient Rome, there was no guarantee they were going to live. I am not referring to the lack of hospitals and absence of modern-day medicine that helps a child who is born prematurely or with a congenital disability. It was not uncommon for murdering a newly born child as a method for birth control. Sound familiar? Let me remind you. Remember what Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, who is still in office after his blackface scandal earlier this year, said? You may not because the liberal media suppressed what he said about newborn children in relation to abortion.

In an interview on WTOP, a Washington D.C. radio station, Northam said, “So in this particular example if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.” The “discussion” refers to ending the baby’s life or not, even though it had been born — another radical step to the left.

As mentioned earlier, Roman parents would kill the child as a form of birth control. What Northam said is no different than what the evil Roman empire would do to newly-born children. The Modern-Day Democratic Party Treats The Unborn The Same Way The Roman Empire Did

"If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother," Northam said, alluding to the physician and mother discussing whether the born infant should live or die. Fake News: Liberal Rag Says Trump Lied About VA Governor's Support For After Birth Abortion. Uh, There's Tape.




Gads, how I hate lying scum who try to lie about what is clear and evident.







The child is already born.....the Democrat uses there words "if" the mother deems the life worth saving, and "a discussion" about how to kill the child.

That's infanticide.

 

[Friends]

How to judge healthcare:

a) life expectancy: many people die for reasons that can’t be controlled the medical profession, such as auto accidents, murder, etc., and once you factor out care crashes and homicides, the US ranks number one in worldwide life expectancy!

“One often-heard argument, voiced by the New York Times' Paul Krugman and others, is that America lags behind other countries in crude health outcomes. But such outcomes reflect a mosaic of factors, such as diet, lifestyle, drug use and cultural values. It pains me as a doctor to say this, but health care is just one factor in health.

In The Business of Health, Robert Ohsfeldt and John Schneider factor out intentional and unintentional injuries from life-expectancy statistics and find that Americans who don't die in car crashes or homicides outlive people in any other Western country.

And if we measure a health care system by how well it serves its sick citizens, American medicine excels.

http://www.davepetno.com/blog/index.php?itemid=30

She cites a study by Professors Ohsfeldt and Schneider at the University of Iowa, which shows that, if you leave out people who are victims of homicide or who die in automobile accidents, Americans live longer than people in any other Western country.

http://www.creators.com/conservative/thomas-sowell/medical-care-facts-and-fables.html

" The standardized estimate of life expectancy at birth is the mean of the predicted value for each country over the period 1980–99. As shown in table 1-5, the raw (not standardized) mean life expectancy at birth for the United States over this period was 75.3 years, compared to 78.7 years for Japan, 78.0 years for Iceland, and 77.7 years for Sweden. However, after accounting for the unusually high fatal-injury rates in the United States, the estimate of standardized life expectancy at birth is 76.9 years, which is higher than the estimates for any other OECD country." http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/-the-business-of-health_110115929760.pdf

The "unusually high fatal-injury rates in the United States" has to be included in evaluating the quality of life in the United States.

 

[PoliticalChic]

.....ignorant buffoons who swallow every communism-supporting lie.

1. Government school students haven’t been taught about communism because they are taught by communists, and they omit a lot.
Communists….the most prodigious murders of the 20th century….and the Democrat Party has taken on their persona.


2. So, Gorbachev dies and we are treated to what Limbaugh called a 'media gorbasm.'
"NBC was by far the most obscene in their mourning for yet another communist dictator. Anchor Lester Holt led into the segment claiming Gorbachev had single-handedly “oversaw the end of the Cold War.”

And, of course, no praise for a communist dictator would be complete without chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, who has a very long and public history of getting smitten with communist dictators. “Mikhail Gorbachev, the communist leader whose brief six-year reign transformed the map of Europe and the world,” she said."3.

Nets Mourn for Gorbachev, Falsely Claim He 'Took Down Iron Curtain'

With the breaking news that former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev was finally being a good communist on Tuesday, the broadcast networks collectively mourned for the man who violently cracked down on peaceful demonstrations in Lithuania and Latvia.

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3. No.....he didn't "transform' the world, or "oversee the end of the Cold War".......he lost it to Ronald Reagan.
He never intended to end Bolshevik order:
"At no point, however, did Gorbachev want to yield Moscow's pride of place as the number two superpower. And he was blissfully confident that the risks were tolerable: "There is no reason to fear the collapse or the end of socialism", Gorbachev assured Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu three weeks after the Berlin Wall had been breached and three weeks before the Romanian dictator was executed by his own people."

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4. "Mitchell lauded Gorbachev for his “a larger vision for his country” and willingness to meet with President Ronald Reagan, who she framed as unreasonable for calling the Soviet Union “an evil empire.”

Here is where praise belongs:
"Reagan was made from far sterner stuff than was his Soviet counterpart. His genial grin and wise-cracking demeanor concealed a spine of steel when push came to shove. Yet at their next meeting in Reykjavik in 1986, where Gorbachev would not budge on the "Star Wars" question, Reagan was decisive and unforgiving. He recalls in An American Life how he stood up from the table to proclaim that the meeting was over. Then he turned to his Secretary of State: "Let's go, George. We're leaving." Like any good diplomat, Shultz was crushed by so much roughness, but Reagan was completely unfazed. Later on, he explained: "I went to Reykjavik determined that everything was negotiable except two things, our freedom and our future."

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The 'Amazing and Mysterious Life' of Ronald Reagan

Mr. Reagan was a simple man with simple straightforward ideas. But he pursued a subtle and complex foreign policy. Maybe we missed something. Where was the rest of him?

nationalinterest.org

5. "I didn't understand", recalls Time's Joe Klein, "how truly monumental, and morally important, Reagan's anti-communism was until I visited the Soviet Union in 1987." He continues with a seemingly trivial vignette. Attending the Bolshoi Ballet, he was nudged by his minder: "'Ronald Reagan. Evil empire', he whispered with dramatic intensity and shot a glance toward his lap where he had hidden two enthusiastic thumbs up. 'Yes!'"

When an American president manages to pluck the soul strings of those who have been raised to fear and despise what he represents, he surely deserves the honorific 'great.'
The "amazing and mysterious" life of Ronald Reagan - National Interest, The Articles | Find
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Who won the Nobel Peace Prize.....Reagan or Gorbachev?


Guess.

"The Myth That Mikhail Gorbachev ‘Ended the Cold War’​

Gorbachev ended nothing. Reality intruded on his tragic and mistaken belief that socialism could work and was inherently good.

......Reagan, he somewhat uniquely understood what the economic and intelligence establishment in the U.S. did not. As he confided to Richard Allen, his first national security advisor, his approach to the Cold War would be cocky as hell: “We win and they lose.” Once again, precisely. Reagan got it. American elites didn’t get it. Of course the U.S. would win. What Reagan lacked in book smarts was more than made up for by common sense that those long on degrees and credentials plainly lacked. Reagan innately knew communism could never match up with freedom. There was no bluster in what he told Allen.

Gorbachev very much believed in this intensely cruel, freedom suffocating, historically murderous nation, and wanted it to survive. Which is a reminder that Gorbachev didn’t “end the Cold War” as boldfaced thinkers like Maureen Dowd strangely asserted as much as reality intruded on Gorbachev’s anti-human, and rather naïve understanding of humanity. Really, imagine wanting to maintain such a failed country defined by what Hedrick Smith described in The Russians as “lines for everything.”

..... it wasn’t about whether the Soviet Union would survive. Reagan knew it would not. It’s so easy to see the genius of his 1982 Westminster address now, but at the time policy elites thought he was nuts for bluntly speaking of “policy” that would put communism in the rear-view mirror, or that more specifically would leave it on “the ash heap of history.” Keep in mind that in 1982, the policy crowd thought the Soviet Union our equal with an economy to match. They didn’t get it.



Ultimately Gorbachev woke up to the reality that Reagan had long understood. In a fitting end to his run at the top of the soon-to-be-defunct Soviet Union, he agreed to sign his resignation only for his “Soviet-made pen” to not work. How very fitting. Gorbachev ended nothing. Reality yet again intruded on his tragic belief in what was hideously cruel. Gorbachev ultimately “kneeled” as coaches do here when they know the game is over. For U.S. policy types to write otherwise, as they have, is truly shameful."

The Myth That Mikhail Gorbachev ‘Ended the Cold War’ | John Tamny

In a fitting end to his run at the top of the soon-to-be-defunct Soviet Union, Gorbachev agreed to sign his resignation only for his “Soviet-made pen” to not work.

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[Redfish]

not true. ask any Brit about their socialized medical care, it sucks. Long waits for routine procedures, Dental care almost non existent, private medical co-ops starting up to provide real time medical care. or you could ask a Russian or Chinese or North Korean how socialized medicine works for them. Or go 90 miles south and ask a Cuban.

a poster named friends disagrees with these facts. amazing how ignorant most liberals are.

 

[PoliticalChic]

a poster named friends disagrees with these facts. amazing how ignorant most liberals are.

This sums it up:

Democrats lie about everything.


It bears repeating:

Democrat lie about everything.

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Listen, you’ve got a president right now, he wants full credit for an economy that he inherited, he wants zero blame for the pandemic he ignored," Obama said.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/10/27/obama_trump_wants_full_credit_for_an_economy_he_inherited_from_me_zero_blame_for_pandemic.html

 

[Friends]

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Republicans used to value balanced budgets. What happened to that?

 

[Friends]

One of the reasons I like abortion so much is that it reduced the rate of violent crime. In their book Freakonomics: A rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner point out that the kind of females most likely to have abortions are also most likely to give birth to boy babies who grow up to become violent street criminals. Those females have low IQ's, they are unmarried, and virtually unemployable. The Roe vs Wade decision of 1973 greatly increased the abortion rate. The rate of violent crime began to decline in 1992. A potential mugger who was aborted in 1974 would have been 18 in 1992.

Because of Roe vs Wade millions of potential criminals were destroyed in the womb. I worry about a Vassar undergraduate who aborts the result of an encounter with a Rhodes Scholar. A lot of middle class couples would love to raise that child. Fortunately this rarely happens.