WHO's Fooling Who?
Why the U.S. is not worse than Costa Rica.
For example, say someone is shot in stomach. If, for example, in Country A, he waits for 12 hours to see a doctor, they look at the person, say he is going to die, give him some pain killers and let him die. But in country B, they see him right away, they give him pain killers, blood transfusions, x-rays, have a team operate on him for 5 hours, spends 5 days in post-op, given antibiotics, etc. but the guy dies anyway. Which Country has the better medical system?
According to the WHO study, Country A, because they spend less with the same result. Who do you think is has the better medical system?
Saturday, September 12, 2009
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This is propaganda you got from FOX or Limbaugh, they are brainwashing you, first of all, country A is NOT Costa Rica and secondly, country B is NOT the USA...if you want to make the USA a better place for our children you have to stop believing the propaganda and discern the facts from serious sources of information like Democracy Now, the Huffington Post, the Nation, and similar...the facts are the Health Insurance Industry has rendered the Health Care System in the USA way too expensive for 85 percent of the population, 40 percent don't have any coverage at all and 45 percent pay way too much for inadequate coverage compared to all other OECD countries and another dozen or so countries with lower GNPs than our own, this is morally scandalous for such a financially rich country. It shows politicians not paying attention to the people
Furthermore the Cato institute is wrong concerning the WHO rankings, the WHO used to rank the USA at the top when it deserved the high rankings, now it ranks the USA where it should be, we shouldn't fault the WHO but the Insurance Industry that has greatly damaged our health care system and brought down our rankings...the CATO institute is known to be very right wing and partisan to big corporations in oil, finance, banking and insurance etc and not a voice or information source for the people...they are a source of "respectable" propaganda for the mainstream media that don't take the time to analyze what Cato says because the mainstream media is controlled by corporations and puts profits ahead of facts, when push comes to shove.
It is amazing how you can be so misguided by your leftist blinders.
The rankings are not based on just how good of care you get, but how much is spent. So using WHO's rankings as a measure of quality of care received is wrong. The left try to say the U.S. has worse care than Costa Rica, yet how many can really believe that?
Did you even read the report? What is wrong with their analysis?
It is amazing how you are so brainwashed by your right wing fascist media pundits on FOX , Beck and Limbaugh and similar.
The rankings "ARE" based on the quality of health care you get "AS WELL AS" "ACCESS" to that health care...and this is where the USA fails compared to other countries...if you are rich you have quality care in the USA and Europe and Asia and in most countries in the World, however if you are Middle Class you have quality care in the USA yet expensive, you have quality care in Europe yet not expensive and you have quality care not expensive in some other countries too in Asia, if you are poor you have no health care in the USA, yet have quality health care in Europe and in some Asian countries also...this is where the USA falls behind in its ranking. If you take the population as whole, country by country, it is easy to conceive that Costa Rica has better health care then the USA...you have been brainwashed into thinking to look at health care only as it applies to the rich not the entire population, sure it is easier for Costa Rica because it has a smaller population but Europe does it too with a larger population than the USA.
>from the Cato report, Cato contends that only areas 1 & 3 below should be considered in the rankings and at much higher percentages, yet the WHO say all five areas should be considered in the following percentages
1. Health Level: 25 percent
2. Health Distribution: 25 percent
3. Responsiveness: 12.5 percent
4. Responsiveness Distribution: 12.5 percent
5. Financial Fairness: 25 percent
So what's wrong with the CATO analysis you ask? Well exactly that, they don't want to count 2,4 and 5 which should be counted, and the percentages specified are, in my opinion, fair and justified for ranking purposes.
You have to learn to think for yourself and not let CATO think for you!
5. Financial Fairness: 25 percent
This does not measure the quality of care received. When people quote the rankings, they don't say 25% of the ranking has nothing to do with the quality of care received.
Logically the percentage of financial fairness should be higher because if you can't afford health care what's the use of having the best health care in the world if you can't afford it. If I had no money at all I would much rather be raising my children in Cuba than in the USA because for poor people health care is much better in Cuba than in the USA. The USA is a rich country and can easily afford health care as good as Cuba's for America's poor, this is supposed to be a "Christian" nation, a nation that follows the teachings of Christ yet we treat our poor worse than Cuba does. We can do better than that!
"Logically the percentage of financial fairness should be higher because if you can't afford health care what's the use of having the best health care in the world if you can't afford it. "
Logic has nothing to do with it. That is emotion. If you think that should be part of the ranking as a whole, that is your opinion. But, again, it has nothing to do with the quality of care available or received.
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