And, hence, my encouragement to read the opening and ending paragraphs of
Richard Wilkinson's 'Unhealthy Societies' (Routledge, London 1998-ish).
(Synopsis: the more unequal a society is, the more unhealthy its inhabitants
- all of them!)
Thus:
reduced inequality = good
(for every body !! )
e-hugs
j
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Reuss)
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: capitalism and "health" care quality
>Date: Tue, Feb 22, 2000, 1:53 pm
>
>Harry Pollard wrote:
>> You suggest that:
>> "The still-increasing excesses of
>> the medical-industrial complex in the West illustrate quite "well" that
>> public health and profit-making is rather *inversely* related."
>>
>> In the US, medical and hospital services aren't bad at all. My experience
>> has been very good over the 38 years I've lived in California.
>
>You're confusing public *health* with medical services. A high volume of
>medical services doesn't indicate good public health, rather the opposite.
>Ill persons need much more services than healthy persons, and treating
>symptoms is much more expensive than avoiding/preventing causes of illness.
>True health care maximizes public health, not profits. In the U.S., the
>medical sector has by far the highest percentage of GDP among all OECD
>countries: 14%, compared to e.g. 8.7% in Sweden, which doesn't have
>unhealthier people at all...
>
>Chris
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