U.S. ranks last in health care compared with nine other high-income countries, report finds
U.S. ranks last in health care compared with nine other high-income countries, report finds
People in the U.S. die the youngest and experience the most avoidable deaths, despite spending much more on health care.
It's also a bit weird that this is politically relevant in the US. I honestly don't understand how my need for healthcare is a political stance.
I work in healthcare and I’m all for socialized medicine or Medicare for all. The corporate hospitals do not act in the best interests of the patients. Some of them (like HCA) are inherently evil. They cut staffing, resources, and supplies to the bone, constantly running on the thinnest of margins leading to dangerously unsafe conditions for patients. Not to mention doctors, providers, nurses, and other healthcare workers are getting completely burned out. This is so they can please the shareholders and the executives can get their fat bonuses. Americans pay so much for healthcare and get so little in return.
It's fucked up there's no option to vote for who actually wants to fix it.
Kamala was headed in the right direction 5 years ago, but now I dont even know if she admits the current system am is flawed now.
there’s no option to vote for who actually wants to fix it.
This makes me jealous of the folks who get to vote for Sanders and AOC back into Congress again.
Kamala was headed in the right direction 5 years ago, but now I dont even know if she admits the current system is flawed now.
The best I can hope for here is that, since in the past she was for fixing it, that once the election is past then she'll "show her true colors" and get around to it again.
Anyone planning on moving to Canada?
It's sad that the best response to Trump's bizarre accusation of "she wants to give everyone health care" would be "fuck yeah I do!" but she for some reason thinks it will scare off swing voters and leans into the classic Dem instinct of tucking to the center.
would be “fuck yeah I do!”
I'm not a huge fan of Pete, but at least he's smart enough to have learned that lesson from Bernie.
He goes on Faux all the time these days and when they call him a communist, he explains what the policy actually means.
The vast majority of our country want healthcare improved. And I stead of capitalizing on it, were letting trump be the only one who talks about fixing it. Knowing that half the voters are dumb enough to believe him
If you believe she was headed in the right direction years ago, you’re completely asleep. Her fake Medicare for All plan was so stacked with means-testing that she needed four pages to list all of the qualifications.
She was literally there to prevent Bernie’s plan from catching on, you unbelievably gullible person.
Canada posting higher on this report than the US, meanwhile the US constantly talks down on the quality of care in Canada, and conservatives use the Canada-US comparison to try and sell Canadians on privatized health care.
Don't worry US, at this rate you won't be in last place for much longer.
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I know US healthcare is in dire need of improvement, but I do have to find the choice of just 9 other cherry-picked countries to be an odd comparison. If this was rephrased as "US is #10 in healthcare globally", I still wouldn't buy that, but that's essentially what this article seems to imply and doesn't sound quite as negative as it should.
but I do have to find the choice of 9 other cherry-picked countries to be an odd comparison.
Just to be clear, the "cherry-picked" countries you think are an "odd comparison" are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Might've been trying to make the point that adding a handful of other countries probably would've left us at the bottom again. Denmark, Spain, Belgium, South Korea, and Japan probably have us beat as well.
It's just a pretty typical comparison with rich, highly developed Western democracies. Considering the US has the highest GDP in the world, and also the country that spends the most on healthcare per capita, coming last is damning.