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It is certainly understandable why Rush would choose Costa Rica to go to,
Their health care system, along with 35 other countries, are rated higher than the US.
Doesn't change the fact that Costa Rica and 35 other countries, have a health care system rated higher than the US. One can hardly blame him for wanting to go there.
Doesn't change the fact that Costa Rica and 35 other countries, have a health care system rated higher than the US. One can hardly blame him for wanting to go there.
The World Health Report 2000, prepared by the World Health Organization, presented performance rankings of 191 nations’ health care systems.
These rankings have been widely cited in public debates about health care, particularly by those interested in reforming the U.S. health care system to resemble more closely those of other countries.
Michael Moore, for instance, famously stated in his film SiCKO that the United States placed only 37th in the WHO report. CNN.com, in verifying Moore’s
claim, noted that France and Canada both placed in the top 10.
Those who cite the WHO rankings typically present them as an objective measure of the relative performance of national health care systems.
They are not. The WHO rankings depend crucially on a number of underlying assumptions— some of them logically incoherent, some characterized by substantial uncertainty, and some rooted in ideological beliefs and values that not everyone shares.
The analysts behind the WHO rankings express the hope that their framework “will lay the basis for a shift from ideological discourse on health policy to a more empirical one.” Yet the WHO rankings themselves have a strong ideological component.
They include factors that are arguably unrelated to actual health performance,
some of which could even improve in response to worse health performance. Even setting those concerns aside, the rankings are still highly sensitive to both measurement error and assumptions about the relative importance of the components.
And finally, the WHO rankings reflect implicit value judgments and lifestyle preferences that differ among individuals and across countries.
www.cato.org/pubs/bp/bp101.pdf
Only if you take the flawed UN's word for it.....
I'll take the WMO's word for it before I would the Cato Institute, if that is what you mean.
Some of the factors Cato disallows are accessibility and distribution of services to all.
You mean there are some that are turned away from accessing care here? Where?
Distribution = government provided. We still don't have that thank god. You must be upset.
j-mac
I read the transcript. Rush never said he was moving out of the country, just that he was "going to Costa Rica" in the context of speaking about health care reform. I took that to mean he was going there for health care.
"A recent Harvard University study revealed that 45,000 adults in the United States die each year because of lack of health insurance plans.
I wonder how many of those are people who:
1. Chose not to get health insurance because they figured they wouldn't need it.
2. Were "financially unable to" yet spent money on a large variety of leisure activities rather than purchase something that apparently is so vital of a necessity people should be forced to purchase it for others.
3. Would still die even if they had insurance for a variety of reasons from complications to simply not bothering to go to the doctor even if they had the insurance.
4. How many are actual people who died specifically because they couldn't afford insurance in any way shape or form and would've done everything in their power had they had insurance to get healthy
Over 115,000 people have now signed up on Facebook to help remind Rush to leave the country.
Help Rush Limbaugh Remember To Leave The Country | Facebook
"A recent Harvard University study revealed that 45,000 adults in the United States die each year because of lack of health insurance plans. That all changes with an aggressive series of reforms enacted by President Obama and the Democrats in Congress, which will extend affordable health insurance plans to 95 percent of all Americans. Projections showed that about 60.1 million Americans would be uninsured by 2020 if the reforms hadn't passed."
Affordable health insurance - individual family and self-employed
Not really upset, I know for a country as socially immature as the US, it will take baby steps to catch us up to the rest of the developed world in providing affordable health care for all our citizens.
Did you read the source link? Also below is a link to the actual report itself.
"The new study, “Health Insurance and Mortality in U.S. Adults,” appears in today’s online edition of the American Journal of Public Health.
The Harvard researchers reviewed data of 9,000 people who were tracked for up to 12 years. They found that an uninsured person among that group was 40 percent more likely to die sooner than an insured person with the same demographic, economic and health characteristics.
Stearns denounced the study, conducted by founders of the 17,000-member Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates a single-payer system. Stearns said the study was biased to promote "socialized medicine" and riddled with "inaccurate characterizations."
Stearns, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, accused the report's authors - Drs. David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler - of reaching their conclusion before launching the study.
Stearns, Grayson duel over health care study | Ocala.com
i remember when liberals use to shout how dissent is the highest form of patriotism....
Now we got hypocrites foaming at the mouth over a lie they spun about someone who dissents from thier views.... how sad.... :lamo
no one is excoriating rush for his willingness and weak ability to offer up his personal form of dissent
he is being flayed for saying stupid ****; making commitments that he then backs away from. he's a coward who won't stand behind his wordsbut i do hope rush will continue to cast his rhinestones before swine
look at its entertainment value in this thread alone
Not having insurance is not the same thing as not having access.
So you agree with me that this law is just the first step to getting a Universal plan, and putting private insurers out of business? And if it is so good, why is the rest of the world running away from it?
j-mac
no one is excoriating rush for his willingness and weak ability to offer up his personal form of dissent
he is being flayed for saying stupid ****; making commitments that he then backs away from. he's a coward who won't stand behind his words
but i do hope rush will continue to cast his rhinestones before swine
look at its entertainment value in this thread alone
no lying on my part. notice it was rush who committed to leaving the country and he is still within our borders. but if it bunches your panties, then offer up a translator for those of us who choose to accept rush's words as they were presented. it is understandable why you object to our exposing his stupidity and propaganda for any who are not currently addicted to the reich wing koolaiduhm, he is. you are the one lying about what he meant when putting his statement into context....
if you were acquainted with my posts, you will find i do not believe rush actually believes the crap he spreads. as an entertainer, rush exploits the stupidity and ignorance of his audience to enrich himselfyes, the reason you are throwing a tantrum day in and day out over your lies, is because of your seething hatred for an entertainer that you want to silence because he does not agree with your limp wristed politics.
no lying on my part. notice it was rush who committed to leaving the country and he is still within our borders.
but if it bunches your panties, then offer up a translator for those of us who choose to accept rush's words as they were presented. it is understandable why you object to our exposing his stupidity and propaganda for any who are not currently addicted to the reich wing koolaid
but, i can appreciate why the sore losers would want rush, as the default figurehead of the republican party, to quit embarrassing himself
if you were acquainted with my posts, you will find i do not believe rush actually believes the crap he spreads. as an entertainer, rush exploits the stupidity and ignorance of his audience to enrich himself
rev, i must defer to your expertise regarding the throwing of tantrums, lying and limp wristedness
What makes you think the rest of the world is running away from it?
Canada Considering Moving Away From Socialized Health Care - Fish Wrapper Will Ignore | The Dead Fish Wrapper Watch
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Death By Socialized Medicine
The American Spectator : Socialized Medicine on Display
The call is out there, and countries that have long had Universal systems are faced with massive debt, and rationing due to this set up, are telling the US "DON'T DO IT!!!!!" Yet the dunderheads press forward.
j-mac
The first article uses the word Obamunism, which is a silly word (like teabagger), but also links to an article that I cannot research. When I read the quote from the senior official, he clearly states that he wishes to tweak the system, not overhaul it and make it completely private. There are models for a public/private partnership in universal health care systems, so this is not out of the ordinary and does not represent a fundamental shift away from universal care.
The other two articles point out to serious problem with NHS, but I fail to see how the conclusion could be made that the government was considering moving towards a private system. Especially since we have preventable tragedies in this country as well.
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