| Kasz216 said: Not actually... no. More expensive... yes. Worse... no.
Because said studies, don't actually look at the results of heatlhcare and instead use things like life expectancy while not accounting for things like teen pregnancy, fatal inujuries, crime, poverty. They just basically take a few nationmaster like stats and run a regression. It's lazy lazy work.
Just to give an example of when you factor in just one of those factors... (By replacing everyones fatal injuries with an average rate.)
When you've got way more young people in the US getting murdered at 20, it's pretty obvious our life expectancy will be lower. Yet that doesn't really reflect on our healthcare system. Not that 2 years here or there is exactly a huge statiscal point anyway.
Hell, you've got more indepth research that suggests that our government healthcare system is worse then not having insurance. http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/03/02/why-medicaid-is-a-humanitarian-catastrophe/ The article is a bit senationalist, but it runs off some of the studies in it.
A switch to universal healthcare, very likely could drag us down to the actual middle of that list. |
There are lots of factors.
But the fact of the matter is, the USA is ranked near the bottom out of the worlds developed nations in regards to life expectancy, infant mortality rates, efficiency, cost and overall care, not to mention higher rates of death from drug addiction, car accidents and guns which a more responsive health system can help mitigate. (Better education helps too.)
Then you have 40 million+ people who don't have cover at all, where-as everyone in my nation is covered. - That's the big difference.
I've had to take clients to hospital at stupid hours in the morning for various reasons (Like Morphine, Cortisone etc'), no cost or waiting and in most cases no paperwork, they got what they needed and I took the client home.
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=13497&page=1
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CPOP/DBASSE_080393#respiratory-diseases
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CPOP/DBASSE_080393#deaths-from-all-causes
http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/health/u-s-health-care-is-the-best-and-the-worst-20140313
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