[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by blueash

For all of you who have posted or are going to post that countries with Universal Health Care have poor care, or that their citizens hate it, or that you once met someone from Germany who wished for Americanized health care.. these sorts of questions are regularly asked by pollsters and researchers. You don't hear of citizen movements to scrap universal health care and replace it with private insurance anywhere, not even from the most conservation politicians in Europe. Tweak the system, yes. But copy the USA, no.

2014 US last in health care of 11 Western nations

2011 U.S. had the highest percentage of respondents who reported being very confident they would receive effective treatment (34.7%) and also the highest percentage saying they were not at all confident they would (9.2%). The U.S., meanwhile, had the highest percentage of respondents who believed that their health system was in need of complete rebuilding (25.4%).

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That is completely wrong. I wish people would post links when they make such outrageous claims. There are very slight differences in definitions of live birth.
Sweden uses exactly the same definition as the US. Norway only counts those born at 12 weeks gestation who exhibit any signs of life, that's 3 months into a pregnancy. Finland uses the WHO definition of liveborn "'Liveborn' is the term for a newborn who breathes or shows other signs of life after birth" Our own CDC has looked very closely at infant mortality. Ours is terrible in part due to higher rates of prematurity [itself a reflection of poor prenatal care and poverty] But it is not just more premies


Please, come here and offer thoughts on improving health care for America, but don't make stuff up.

How many of these systems are financially solvent. I hear many stories of them going broke. They are not able to raise enough money through taxes to keep them going. The French system has been on the verge of collapse. I have friends in The UK that defend their system, and then complain that the government is not putting enough money into it. And of course, they always have the same mantra. "Tax the rich more".

The problem with trying to do this in The US is that it can't be paid for if we taxed the top 5% at 100%.

And even if we did, can we trust to government to run a cost efficient system that provides good service? What other government agencies can you think of that are cost efficient and well run?