US Universal Healthcare: How are we going to pay for it?

[Kasz216]

Rath said:

Kasz216 said:

Rath said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8201711.stm

I think thats an interesting few facts to look at.

Does look pretty positive for the US outside of Infant mortality.

What out of pocket spending being so low.

I don't know why people keep posting stats though that largely are pointless like life expecatancy.  Which doesn't control for murder rates and other such things vs survival rates which look bad for other countries, and mortality rates for those older which... also looks back for other countries.

I mean another similar stat is crude death rate.

Where the UK has 10 deaths per 1000 people vs 8 deaths per 1000 per year.

More people per year in the UK die every year per capita.  DESPITE having lower murder rates, lower prison rates and a number of other such things.

 

 

You know full well that crude death rate is only a decent mechanism for telling if a society is getting relatively younger or older.

I don't know how you can say it looks good for the US outside of infant mortality, the only one that looks good is out of pocket expenditure and even that being a stupid statistic without actually knowing private expenditure per capita. The real interesting ones to me were infant mortality (which is one of the key tests of a health system) and expenditure per capita. The combination of those two shows that the US health system is actually broken - you are spending a lot of money and have a worse infant mortality rate.

And Life Expectancy isn't a good sign of ANYTHING.

Infant mortality is only one indicator of MANY.

While Per Capita is largely a federal government problem. 

The federal government is why Healthcare is broken.

I mean the Healthcare industry is one of the biggest vehicles for both Republicans and Democrats to get elected.  Both parties are full up on their money.

 

Unless we have election campaign reform... universal healthcare will equal a ridiculious waste who's prices will skyrocket well beyond what they are even at now.

 

The less our government is involved in healthcare the better.