http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO's_ranki...re_systems
USA
37th in the world
1st in expenditure per patient
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A deeply flawed medical system with priorities that are in the best interest of no one but a few robber barons. A system that is purposely kept as financially inefficient as possible, to benefit the few while the countless uninsured and under-insured suffer. Even those WITH the best out-of pocket insurance get routinely denied for care for procedures, base on technicalities in the insurance or even the whim of their insurance.
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A system and average standard of care that is undeniably inferior to most of the developed world. This is embarrassing, especially to the propagandists that continue to claim superiority in spite of the stats.
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A system who's supporters are either too self interested, too deluded, or too sociopathic to admit that the system and the care is flawed and behind the times.
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Medical personnel that are too invested in their careers and the system to admit when the care is inferior and the system is wrong on a deep level. Instead, they lobby to keep the system in place.
Italy is #2. Italy!
THAT is damn embarrassing to the USA. No offense to Italians intended. Colombia is way ahead of the USA. Are you freaking kidding me?!!
That is a serious indictment on the US healthcare system. What possible excuse could the USA have for that?
USA
37th in the world
1st in expenditure per patient
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A deeply flawed medical system with priorities that are in the best interest of no one but a few robber barons. A system that is purposely kept as financially inefficient as possible, to benefit the few while the countless uninsured and under-insured suffer. Even those WITH the best out-of pocket insurance get routinely denied for care for procedures, base on technicalities in the insurance or even the whim of their insurance.
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A system and average standard of care that is undeniably inferior to most of the developed world. This is embarrassing, especially to the propagandists that continue to claim superiority in spite of the stats.
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A system who's supporters are either too self interested, too deluded, or too sociopathic to admit that the system and the care is flawed and behind the times.
=
Medical personnel that are too invested in their careers and the system to admit when the care is inferior and the system is wrong on a deep level. Instead, they lobby to keep the system in place.
Italy is #2. Italy!
THAT is damn embarrassing to the USA. No offense to Italians intended. Colombia is way ahead of the USA. Are you freaking kidding me?!!
That is a serious indictment on the US healthcare system. What possible excuse could the USA have for that?