BING Query
"How Does US Healthcare Rank in the world among industrialized nations?"
38th place
World Health Organization ranking of health systems in 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Health Rankings: Of 17 Nations, U.S. Is Dead Last
New Health Rankings: Of 17 Nations, U.S. Is Dead Last - The Atlantic
The Most Efficient Health Care Systems In The World (INFOGRAPHICS)
It's remarkable how low America places in health care efficiency: among the 48 countries included in the Bloomberg study, the U.S. ranks 46th, outpacing just Serbia and Brazil. Once that sinks in, try this one on for size: the U.S. ranks worse than China, Algeria, and Iran.
But the sheer numbers are really what's humbling about this list: the U.S. ranks second in health care cost per capita ($8,608), only to be outspent by Switzerland ($9,121) -- which, for the record, boasts a top-10 health care system in terms of efficiency. Furthermore, the U.S. is tops in terms of health care cost relative to GDP, with 17.2 percent of the country's wealth spent on medical care for every American.
In other words, the world's richest country spends more of its money on health care while getting less than almost every other nation in return.
The Most Efficient Health Care Systems In The World (INFOGRAPHICS)
New England Journal of Medicine
Ranking 37th ? Measuring the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System
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These Are The 36 Countries That Have Better Healthcare Systems Than The US
Costa Rica ranks higher
The 36 Best Healthcare Systems In The World - Business Insider
This was 6 years ago but I expect the numbers are even worse now
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...5065809AAQrcWR
First a few facts.
In terms of the human development index, the United States has fallen from second place in 1990 (behind Canada) to 12th place. This decline continued through both the Clinton and Bush administrations, with the US falling to sixth in 1995, ninth in 2000, and 12th in 2005.
In certain respects, the decline is even worse. The US is 34th in infant mortality?with a level comparable to Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Cuba. US school children perform significantly below their counterparts in countries like Canada, France, Germany and Japan, and 14 percent of the population, some 40 million people, lack basic literacy and number skills.
Of the world?s 30 richest nations, which comprise the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United States has the highest proportion of children living in poverty, 15 percent, and the most people in prison, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the whole population. With five percent of the world?s population, the US has 24 percent of the world?s prisoners.
The report notes: ?Social mobility is now less fluid in the United States than in other affluent nations. Indeed, a poor child born in Germany, France, Canada or one of the Nordic countries has a better chance to join the middle class in adulthood than an American child born into similar circumstances.?
In overall life expectancy, the United States ranks an astonishing 42nd, behind not only Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and all the countries of Western Europe, but also Israel, Greece, Singapore, Costa Rica and South Korea. The US spends twice as much money per capita on health care as any of these countries, but its citizens live shorter lives.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul200...
The reason is pretty obvious for any non free market fundamentalist. In a lot of area's and certainly healthcare the for profit motive does not lead to the best results. When it benefits the whole society it's nothing but pure logic to organize products and or services together. Socialism is not about "big government", it's about people working together and understanding people should not serve the system but the system should serve us.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...
Free market fundamentalism stands in the way of reforms to change the American health system that is not unsuccessful in the logic of how it's set up. The goal is to make money and a lot of money is indeed being made. Most people would agree that should not be the goal of a good healthcare system but still shy away from drawing the logical conclusions or are easily persuaded by right wing demagogy about socialism.
Source:
http://www.alternet.org/story/92426/...h/?page=entire
I think Putin should feel free to tell Harper and his "western allies" cronies to go fuck themselves. Which I think he just did in Iran before stopping my to wipe his cock on Harper's jacket in Australia.