[HSF] Death on waiting list

[Michael Firstenberg]

Maybe that I why we spend more on health care than any other country in the
world.
The question is the distorting of all of the statistics that people quote -
are all of these waiting lists, complications, and deaths included - or is
it like how the US count the unemployment rate - simply not counting those
people no longer looking for jobs or help?


-michael


On 4/17/07, Donald Ross <donross at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> Hal,
> It aint  bad everywhere but I agree there is no perfect solution. In
> Oz the stents have fixed our public cardiac surgery  waiting lists
> but if you need a hip there is a bit of a wait.
> I guess we have a better funded public system than many because a
> fixed percentage of income is earmarked for health.
> How do poor uninsured folk fare in USA where more of GDP is spent on
> health than any other country?
> Don
> On 17/04/2007, at 10:58 AM, Hgrmd at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Dear Dave,
> >   Your public system seems similar to nearly all the state systems
> > that I've
> > seen or read about.  Canada has a disgraceful waiting period for
> > it's public
> > cardiac surgical patients.  In addition, I've seen Canadian
> > patients with
> > unstable symptoms who get cathed in Florida.  Unless they are
> > about to die,
> > Canada will insist that they be flown back to Canada, presumably
> > to end up at
> > the back of the line.  I have truly felt sorry for some of  those
> > poor patients.
> >  The U.S. private system has its problems, but I sure  would hate
> > to see
> > socialized medicine become the predominant player.
> >
> > Hal
> >
> >
> >
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