We show that the efficacy of health care systems cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant mortality and life expectancy.
Well, this is a public health measure and an international standard. It may not reflect every aspect of health care system performance, nor was it ever intended to. This misunderstanding has been the basis of what appears to be an almost systematic campaign of misinformation for the purpose of advancing an ideological agenda.
However, having said that, there is still the following interesting matter:
We also find that Canada has no more abolished the tendency for health status to improve with income than have other countries. Indeed, the health-income gradient is slightly steeper in Canada than it is in the U.S.
That is in fact, a brilliant observation, which, if true, would bear considerable additional attention from non-ideologues. I can't wait to see the original paper to see if there were exclusions, what the specific outcomes were in consideration of health outcomes, and, of course, if this is a trend or actually approached anything resembling statistical significance.
On the issue of cost, about twice as high in the US as in Canada,
Is the U.S. getting sufficient additional benefits to justify these greater expenditures and where should we cut back if cutbacks must be made?
This seems to miss the point, that Canada can achieve its goal of improving specific health care outcomes at less than half the cost of the US. The US is more interested in the unmeasurables of satisfaction and can't achieve a fraction of what our people deserve.
Hiowver, comments may be premature, until the article becomes generally available.
Well, this is a public health measure and an international standard. It may not reflect every aspect of health care system performance, nor was it ever intended to. This misunderstanding has been the basis of what appears to be an almost systematic campaign of misinformation for the purpose of advancing an ideological agenda.
However, having said that, there is still the following interesting matter:
That is in fact, a brilliant observation, which, if true, would bear considerable additional attention from non-ideologues. I can't wait to see the original paper to see if there were exclusions, what the specific outcomes were in consideration of health outcomes, and, of course, if this is a trend or actually approached anything resembling statistical significance.
On the issue of cost, about twice as high in the US as in Canada,
This seems to miss the point, that Canada can achieve its goal of improving specific health care outcomes at less than half the cost of the US. The US is more interested in the unmeasurables of satisfaction and can't achieve a fraction of what our people deserve.
Hiowver, comments may be premature, until the article becomes generally available.