Healthcare isn't a business, it's peoples lives

[vlad321]

Kasz216 said:

elprincipe said:

highwaystar101 said:

Tyrannical said:
36 Costa Rica 37 United States of America What idiotic made up bullshit list is this? I think I'd take the US health care system over Costa Rica's or any other country on that list.

The world health organisation...

I think they may know a little bit about health

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

 

I believe that is what they call PWNED

PWNED only if you don't know how they compute the rankings.  Check out this article to see how they really come up with this stuff.  I'm sure most of us who are familiar with U.N. machinations will not be shocked.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9259

 

Basically what i've been saying.

 

Alright now that I have some time.

First off, Cato is a think tank that's always been against anything more socialistic. As much as they don't want to be labeled conservatives, that's exactly what they are. I bet you I can find some article from some liberal group that praises and maybe even rebutts Cato's claims. Anyhow on to the rebuttal.

For the Financial Fairness, yes we already addressed this. What's the point of having great healthcare if only a few people are able to pay for it? Or even worse, if they do get treated the poorer are only put under much greater strain under depth, causing long-term stress, and so on and so forth. Ultimately the poorer end up with debt, chronic stress, and overall they end up a lot worse situation than the rich after the treatment. It's a thoroughly valid statistic.

 

The answer to his distribution of Health in the Population, actually lies in the report summary itself:

" It is not sufficient to protect or improve the average health of the population, if - at the same time - inequality worsens or remains high because the gain accrues disproportionately to those already enjoying better health. The health system also has the responsibility to try to reduce inequalities by prioritizing actions to improve the health of the worse-off, wherever these inequalities are caused by conditions amenable to intervention. The objective of good health is really twofold: the best attainable average level – goodness – and the smallest feasible differences among individuals and groups – fairness. A gain in either one of these, with no change in the other, constitutes an improvement."

 

And they are slamming DALE. Great to see they completely missed the fucking point on this report. This report ranks the Health Systems and how they work. It bassically states that if you give Costa Rica access to as much resources as the US does, then it would be a better place for people to get sick in. The simple fact that even before the adjusment the US is 15th is really sad, given the disaprity in the per capita cost.

 

Ok I think I covered all their reasons well enough.

@Rpruett

You still haven't even read the source, just some biased interpretation. Either put your money where your mouth is and stop being an idiot or gtfo of this thread.