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Originally Posted by rebound
So where's the savings from nationalizing the private health care companies?
Looks like they need to raise taxes...
Gee... I wonder why there aren't more doctors? Could it be the market, i.e. a complete and total lack of incentive for anyone to become a doctor?
You do enjoy shooting yourself in the foot, eh?  |
Did you even look at the graphs I posted?
Most of the countries have far more doctors than we do, with France having 50% more per capita.
As for savings, the US spends by far the most money on health care of any country in the world. I personally spent $4600 last year so I can have lousy HMO coverage for myself (I'm single, no kids or wife included), and I went to the doctor once for a checkup.
You want to see the savings? Here you go:
http://www.who.int/whosis/database/c...indicators=nha
Total per capita cost of health care (same countries as above):
Australia: $3,123.30
Canada: $3,037.60
Finland: $2,664.30
France: $3,464.00
Japan: $2,823.20
Spain: $1,971.20
Sweden: $3,532.00
United Kingdom: $2.899.70
United States: $6,096.20
Well, obviously Britain and Canada do not spend as much as France does, so they have fewer doctors. And here in the US, we spend double what these other countries spend, and our results are far inferior to ALL of these other countries.
Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births):
Australia: 4.57
Canada: 4.63
Finland: 3.52
France: 3.41
Japan: 2.80
Spain: 4.31
Sweden: 2.76
United Kingdom: 5.01
United States: 6.37
Life Expectancy:
Australia: 80.62
Canada: 80.34
Finland: 78.66
France: 80.59
Japan: 82.02
Spain: 79.78
Sweden: 80.63
United Kingdom: 78.70
United States: 78.00
So rather than argue about this, let me just ask you this: If we spend so much more than all of these other countries (more than double some of them), then why are our results far worse than all of them? What is your theory?