US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds

[ShahdagMountains]

^ Westwall.

That’s what the nurse told me.

Who was l, a visitor patient to argue with that?

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Quality is irrelevant when you cant access care.

You must be talking about England. Loads of Brits have told me about not being able to get a doctor’s appointment, and having to go online to schedule some sort of treatment.

 

[westwall]

^ Westwall.

That’s what the nurse told me.

Who was l, a visitor patient to argue with that?

Never assume what a person claims is true.

 

[ThisIsMe]

I often go to the USA but I buy travellers insurance.

You should stay in your home with the doors and windows closed and locked for fear you encounter real humans when you leave the house.

Why? I’m not the won advocating for government healthcare in a country I don’t even live in…

 

[GMCGeneral]

Decent means not being bankrupted by healthcare bills.

Pay your own damned bills

 

[Captain Caveman]

You must be talking about England. Loads of Brits have told me about not being able to get a doctor’s appointment, and having to go online to schedule some sort of treatment.

In 50 odd years in using the NHS, never had any problems whatsoever. Not known any family member having a problem either.

What we suffer in the UK is that Labourites (Lefties) just forever and a day belittle our NHS. They just constantly call it shit and put the staff efforts down. I did post a stat years ago at how many million NHS interactions there are per day, and you will obviously will get the odd hiccup. The odd hiccup hits the headlines followed by the Lefty gang blaming Thatcher and the Tories. Nothings mentioned of the other umpteen million interactions.

Then the odd Yank picks up on this and the usual Neanderthal cliché blurts out.

Edit - There were an estimated 600 million patient contacts with GP, community, hospital, NHS 111 and ambulance services in 2023/24 (or the most recent year for which data was available). This is equivalent to 1.7 million interactions with patients every day.

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-charts/NHS-activity-nutshell

 

[westwall]

In 50 odd years in using the NHS, never had any problems whatsoever. Not known any family member having a problem either.

What we suffer in the UK is that Labourites (Lefties) just forever and a day belittle our NHS. They just constantly call it shit and put the staff efforts down. I did post a stat years ago at how many million NHS interactions there are per day, and you will obviously will get the odd hiccup. The odd hiccup hits the headlines followed by the Lefty gang blaming Thatcher and the Tories. Nothings mentioned of the other umpteen million interactions.

Then the odd Yank picks up on this and the usual Neanderthal cliché blurts out.

Edit - There were an estimated 600 million patient contacts with GP, community, hospital, NHS 111 and ambulance services in 2023/24 (or the most recent year for which data was available). This is equivalent to 1.7 million interactions with patients every day.

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-charts/NHS-activity-nutshell

“Crisis,” “collapse,” “catastrophe” — these are common descriptors from recent headlines about the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. In 2022, the NHS was supposed to begin its recovery from being perceived as a Covid-and-emergencies-only service during parts of 2020 and 2021. Throughout the year, however, doctors warned of a coming crisis in the winter of 2022 to 2023. The crisis duly arrived.
For much of December 2022 and January 2023, media reports featured ambulances lined up outside hospitals, unable to hand over their patients; patients lying at home with fractured hips, unattended by ambulances; emergency department waiting times exceeding 12 hours; and hospital corridors crowded with patients unable to be admitted. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimated in December that 300 to 500 people were dying each week because of these delays. Ambulance workers and nurses held their first strikes in 30 years over pay and conditions. In mid-March, mid-April, and mid-June, junior doctors held 3- or 4-day strikes — and senior doctors have scheduled similar action. Hundreds of thousands of operations and appointments have been canceled.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301257

And from the UK

"The NHS is experiencing some of the most severe pressures in its 75-year history. The COVID-19 pandemic is just the tip of the iceberg - the health service has been facing years of inadequate planning and chronic under-resourcing.

This page is an overview of the main pressure points in the NHS."

An NHS under pressure

We provide an overview of the main pressure points in the English NHS before and due to COVID-19 and what the BMA is doing to address them.

www.bma.org.uk

 

[para bellum]

They made a doc of Obamas struggle to get a decent healthcare system.
All against GOP obstruction.
So there were many compromises.

There was no compromise. Obamacare was created and passed on a pure party-line vote. The only compromises were between democrats (to secure the votes of the reluctant dems), primarily regarding the funding of medicaid expansion.

However it is wildly popular.

But you OP says we have the worst system in all the developed world! Why is that wildly popular?

Your cognitive dissonance is showing...

Meanwhile we can only speculate on trumps "concept of a plan".
Cynics might think that he didnt have a plan.

TDS. It's irrelevant because the GOP didn't pass any health care legislation in Trump's tenure.

 

[Dismantle this Country]

No, they do not.

 

[Dismantle this Country]

US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds

Despite Americans paying nearly double that of other nations, the US fares poorly in list of 10 countries

www.theguardian.com

In spite of Americans paying nearly double that of other countries, the system performed poorly on health equity, access to care and outcomes.

Last.

I dont think its an indictment of the hospitals It is more a comment on the actual system.

Healthcare is an open sore in the colonies. But the US is no nearer a solution

Even the far left site says that your source is leftist.

Commonwealth Fund - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording

mediabiasfactcheck.com