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Why would my political ideology cause me to want to say the US has bad healthcare? If privatised, insurance-based healthcare was more effective than universal healthcare, I would be pushing for that. My political ideology has nothing to do with it -- and it's also a cheap method to discredit what I'm saying.
You know as well as I the WHO didn't publish rankings in the 2010 report, so there's another lie you've failed to sell me on -- but if you want more evidence, check it out:
U.S. scores dead last again in healthcare study | Reuters
Reuters. Are you going to claim Reuters, or the Commonwealth, are untrustworthy as well?
Who exactly would be trustworthy to you? FOX News? John Boehner? Sarah Palin?
It's no secret that the US health care system is a disaster, and of all developed nations, the US has some of the worst health care and overall health.
This Business Insider article mentions the 36 countries that have better health care than the US, from France in #1 to Costa Rica in #36.
My poll today is: What needs to change to bring the US closer to other developed nations in terms of health care quality, service and costs?
The 36 Best Healthcare Systems In The World - Business Insider
Really? Criticism resulting in exile is appropriate?
Are you hearing yourself?
It's no secret that the US healthcare system is a disaster, and of all developed nations, the US has some of the worst healthcare and overall health.
This Business Insider article mentions the 36 countries that have better healthcare than the US, from France in #1 to Costa Rica in #36.
My poll today is: What needs to change to bring the US closer to other developed nations in terms of healthcare quality, service and costs?
The 36 Best Healthcare Systems In The World - Business Insider
:naughtyI've now provided three articles from three different sources that all claim, based on worldwide research, that the US has a terrible healthcare system.
It is an agenda. An agenda that is willing to use biased and flawed information to further the agenda.Is it a global conspiracy? Or maybe, certain elements in your own country that are doing very well by your system don't want it to change? Which is more likely?
Over the past year, I can't figure out this Businessinsider website. It's comparable to Yahoo's front page. They post any article and never fact checking. Defiantly not a reliable source.
The best one Businessinsider did was the "Best Top Ten Marine Corps in the World." To the best of my knowledge there are only three or four marine corps in the world. The Royal Marines are not a corps.
I've recently been to Costa Rica, their health care is third world. There are a few hospitals that are decent but they are for the Americans who live down there.
Half the countries that were listed you can find people getting off the plane at JFK and LAX today coming from those countries to get an operation in America. Even the King of Saudia Arabia and his family come to America for their health care.
Really? Criticism resulting in exile is appropriate?
Are you hearing yourself?
:naughty
No, all you have provided is biased and flawed information.
I provided a link to the information that has shown the Who ranking are admittedly biased, skewed and flawed.
And then I provided the methodology from your second link showing it really has nothing to do with "better healthcare".
It is an agenda. An agenda that is willing to use biased and flawed information to further the agenda.
Who the hell is talking about exile? Exile is force.
If you don't like the policies of where you are, be somewhere else. Otherwise, the least of what you are is hypocritical.
Sadly, you won't get a reply that includes a direct answer for obvious reasons. I applaud you for trying nevertheless.I see a few nonhealthcare factors used to determine the best healthcare. Why would they do that?
So you believe there's no place for criticism in America? How else would things change?
Or do you really believe America is perfect and doesn't need to change?
It's no secret that the US healthcare system is a disaster, and of all developed nations, the US has some of the worst healthcare and overall health.
This Business Insider article mentions the 36 countries that have better healthcare than the US, from France in #1 to Costa Rica in #36.
My poll today is: What needs to change to bring the US closer to other developed nations in terms of healthcare quality, service and costs?
The 36 Best Healthcare Systems In The World - Business Insider
I believe that you can criticize all you want. I also think that the means of the many do not change for the wants of the few. I also believe that anyone who cannot accept that can kick rocks.
If people want to actively change health care, I'll actively stymie them. I'll consider it a good for the people - the people that count, anyway.
And there are Americans that fly to Europe for healthcare -- 750,000 in 2007, and 1.5 million in 2008 (sources in the article provided below). What's your point?
Medical tourism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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That it, a corps is two or more divisions. Two or more corps are an army.
It's like when just not Businessinsider but most journalist refer to a destroyer or an amphibious transport as being a battleship or calling a semi automatic rifle an assault rifle or an ammunition magazine a clip.
globally research sources are biased
Do you not know what admittedly means? It is admitted to be flawed. Duh!If you claim that my worldwide, globally research sources are biased, I can just as easily claim your article is just as biased. We get nowhere playing this game -- and I've provided more evidence here, whether you've claimed it's biased or not.
The evil agenda is trying to bring us Government healthcare.Pray tell, what is the agenda? Is it this nation-wide conspiracy to bring American healthcare into the 21st century? To give the 315 million citizens of one of the world's richest nations healthcare that is at least on par with a Caribbean dictatorship?
What an evil agenda.
Why are non-healthcare factors important for finding out who has the best healthcare?
Do you not know what admittedly means? It is admitted to be flawed. Duh!
I provided you the Post providing the information showing the Who's ranking are skewed flawed and biased.
Go and read it and then weep.
I then quoted from your second source showing the methodology, which has nothing to do with what is "better healthcare".
Do you not understand that?
Nothing you had provided is unbiased factual information.
It is flawed and is being used to further an agenda.
Even the third set of information you used, the Commonwealth Fund study, is flawed and biased.
It is not objective.
Even John Stossel was able to point them out.
RealClearPolitics - Articles - Another Bogus Report Card for U.S. Medical Care
The evil agenda is trying to bring us Government healthcare.
The evil agenda is trying to bring us healthcare on par with a Caribbean dictatorship. You have been tricked into thinking they have better healthcare, when they don't.
According to the WHO, factors like literacy, birth rate, infant mortality rate, etc., are all indicative of the overall health of a populace, and can sometimes provide insight that traditional statistics like money spent on healthcare can overshadow.
And there are Americans that fly to Europe for healthcare -- 750,000 in 2007, and 1.5 million in 2008 (sources in the article provided below). What's your point?
Medical tourism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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That it, a corps is two or more divisions. Two or more corps are an army.
It's like when just not Businessinsider but most journalist refer to a destroyer or an amphibious transport as being a battleship or calling a semi automatic rifle an assault rifle or an ammunition magazine a clip.
I still think we're splitting hairs here. Business Insider is an American publication, thus it used American terminology for an article -- it called other marine services, like the Royal Marines, 'corps', while those services might not have used that particular word. Fine.
I don't see how any of that affects their article on healthcare that is a direct link to the World Health Organization anyway.
Other: anyone who bitches about it, get the F out and go to one of the 36 countries.
Your article claims "NOTE: The rankings are based on an index of five factors — health, health equality, responsiveness, responsiveness equality, and fair financial contribution. As noted above, all data is from 2000 or earlier and these findings have been questioned."
Of the five factors, only health and responsiveness have to do with healthcare. Less than half of the requirements are healthcare related.
You're wrong -- equality is a fundamental element of a good healthcare system. If you have millions and millions of dollars, you can get good healthcare anywhere in the world. That doesn't mean the system is good -- the best healthcare system provides healthcare for all, and at a reasonable cost.
Who are the people that count?
I still think we're splitting hairs here. Business Insider is an American publication, thus it used American terminology for an article -- it called other marine services, like the Royal Marines, 'corps', while those services might not have used that particular word. Fine.
I don't see how any of that affects their article on healthcare that is a direct link to the World Health Organization anyway.
What I noticed unless I overlooked it, the liberals spoke hole Michael Moore Cuba's health care didn't make the top 35.
Do you think we were being jerked off by the left ?
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