On Feb 10, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Charles Bennett wrote: >> It is totally irresponsible to pay health care providers form any >> financial pool, whether governmental or insurance, without having >> some >> standards. And in fact every hospital and insurance company does try >> to impose standards but the current system is hodgepodge and only >> partially effective. Examples of the elderly be subjected to totally >> ineffective elective procedures because some doctor wants a payday >> from medicare are all too common. > > > I agree, but having the government set the standard lead to the UK > NHS, which by any objective standard is a disaster.
It's by no means universally agreed that the healthcare in the UK is worse than in the US. Many observers report that it is quite a bit better. Britain certainly does better by the measure of the health of the population, both overall and stratified by age and income. Certainly there are lifestyle, environmental and possibly genetic variables that can effect overall health statistics as much as healthcare quality. Having conceded that much, looking at mortality and disability statistics it is hard to conclude that the NHS is doing everything wrong. Indeed the proponents of the US system strike me as generally being more *subjective* than the other side. - God must have loved the people in power, for he made them so much like their own image of him. -Kenneth Patchen _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
