US healthcare ranks last

[UltraChad]

Exactly. That is a performance ranking, not a leftist ranking. When you see "equity," that does not mean "leftist."

Equity isn't performance, it's leftism.

Yes it does.......only leftist think equity is the end all be all.

 

[UltraChad]

It has done what it was meant to do - give more people access to health insurance.

It as also supposed to lower costs. FAILED on that front.

 

[JohnEngelman]

American Journal of Managed Care,
January 31, 2023

US Has Highest Infant, Maternal Mortality Rates Despite the Most Health Care Spending​

Author(s):
Justina Petrullo

The United States possesses the highest infant and maternal mortality rates compared with any other high-income country, even though it spends the most on health care.

The United States has the highest infant and maternal mortality rates out of any other high-income country and simultaneously spends the most on health care, according to a report released Tuesday by the Commonwealth Fund.

The report evaluated US health spending, outcomes, status, and service use compared with Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In addition, US health system efficiency was compared with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average of the 38 high-income countries that had available data from December 2022.

Of all countries in 2020, the United States possessed the highest infant mortality rate at 5.4 deaths per 1000 live births, which is markedly higher than the 1.6 deaths per 1000 live births in Norway, which has the lowest mortality rate...

US maternal mortality in 2020 was over 3 times the rate in most of the other high-income countries, with almost 24 (23.8) maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births....

The United States has lower life expectancy and much worse health outcomes than other countries, although the country spends 2-4 times as much on health care as most other high-income nations. In 2021, the United States spent 17.8% of gross domestic product on health care, nearly twice as much as the average OECD country...

The United States also possess the highest rate of physical assault deaths, including gun violence, with 7.4 deaths per 100,000 people...

The authors cited 3 reasons for the disparities that make the United States an outlier compared with other high-income countries: unaffordable coverage, high costs, and limited access to effective primary care to better prevent and manage chronic health conditions.

https://www.ajmc.com/view/us-has-hi...y-rates-despite-the-most-health-care-spending

No, that's what the report and people doing the rankings say.

You lack the ability to distinguish between facts and your opinions.

 

[ll74]

It as also supposed to lower costs. FAILED on that front.

It was,but the final legislation basically gutted that part.

 

[MajorRewrite]

The US medical industry is so full of parasites that they have their own awards …

Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced

The recipients are chosen by a panel made up of health policy experts, clinicians, journalists and advocates. The awards are named after Martin Shkreli, the infamous “pharma bro” who rose to international notoriety after increasing the price of lifesaving anti-parasitic drug Daraprim 50-fold.

The top 10 is replete with fraud and malpractice.

 

[Bray123]

It as also supposed to lower costs. FAILED on that front.

Blame Trump for not reforming ACA like he campaigned on. He said it was too hard and went golfing & pussy-grabbing instead.

 

[UltraChad]

Blame Trump for not reforming ACA like he campaigned on. He said it was too hard and went golfing & pussy-grabbing instead.

And Democrats blocked him from doing...they have to keep their big pharma/insurance buddies happy.

So Trump might as well golf and grab some ass.

What's wrong with that?

 

[MajorRewrite]

And Democrats blocked him from doing...they have to keep their big pharma/insurance buddies happy.

Totally Fact-Free Chad strikes again!

The Republicans controlled both houses of Congress for the first two years of Trump’s administration. The Democrats didn’t have the power to block anything.

Try again, Totally Fact-Free Chad.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Did Doddering Donnie issue an executive order to find his concept of a plan? The darn thing has gone missing again.

 

[Politruk]

He wants warp speed. Burning the racket to the ground and growing something new out of the ashes would take at least a generation, maybe centuries. That is inconvenient for political speeches.

By "the racket" you do mean the private health-insurance companies, right? Those can be replaced by a workable single-payer system overnight.

 

[MajorRewrite]

By "the racket" you do mean the private health-insurance companies, right? Those can be replaced by a workable single-payer system overnight.

Cherno doesn’t know what he means. He just types whatever the voices in his head tell him to type.

 

[Politruk]

Do you really want government running your healthcare?

Better the government than corporate execs. Looking around the world -- something we should always do -- government has a much better track record in this area.

 

[Politruk]

The medical professions could become more like car mechanics, with less formal education and more practical experience for modest income directly from patients.

Then they wouldn't be nearly as effective at healing as they are now.

 

[colddiesel]

Why does Cuba have better health outcomes than the USA, plus greater life expectancy at a fraction of the cost?

 

[Bray123]

Why does Cuba have better health outcomes than the USA, plus greater life expectancy at a fraction of the cost?

Because they don't have fuckwits trying to argue that it's the Democrats artificially raising the cost of health care to please their Big Business buddies.

Because golfing is more fun than working.

 

[BrandonW1985]

Omg I’ve about had it with the insurance company my dad is completely paralyzed in his right arm and leg the strokes have effected his Brain and the insurance company gives me maybe a week when i appeal his end of care and I’m on my 3rd appeal...

 

[MajorRewrite]

This is nice, but we need a healthcare system that doesn’t bankrupt people.

Two non-profits in Ohio are settling some of the $220bn in US medical debt

About 100 million Americans owe an estimated $220bn in medical debt, with many dragging those financial obligations around for decades. Millions of low-income Americans have been trapped by medical debt that has prevented them from owning a car or house, keeping them and their spouses and children in poverty for generations.

But in south-west Ohio, local activists and medical centers are teaming up with Undue Medical Debt, a Boston-based non-profit formerly called RIP Medical Debt, on an ambitious effort to raise funding to settle longstanding medical bills for thousands of locals.

In a region with some of the highest medical debt rates in the country, about 13,000 people who owe more than $22m are eligible for debt relief, which can be bought from debt collecting agencies at a knockdown rate of $1 for $178 of debt.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

American Journal of Managed Care,
January 31, 2023

US Has Highest Infant, Maternal Mortality Rates Despite the Most Health Care Spending​

Author(s):
Justina Petrullo

The United States possesses the highest infant and maternal mortality rates compared with any other high-income country, even though it spends the most on health care.

The United States has the highest infant and maternal mortality rates out of any other high-income country and simultaneously spends the most on health care, according to a report released Tuesday by the Commonwealth Fund.

The report evaluated US health spending, outcomes, status, and service use compared with Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In addition, US health system efficiency was compared with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average of the 38 high-income countries that had available data from December 2022.

Of all countries in 2020, the United States possessed the highest infant mortality rate at 5.4 deaths per 1000 live births, which is markedly higher than the 1.6 deaths per 1000 live births in Norway, which has the lowest mortality rate...

US maternal mortality in 2020 was over 3 times the rate in most of the other high-income countries, with almost 24 (23.8) maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births....

The United States has lower life expectancy and much worse health outcomes than other countries, although the country spends 2-4 times as much on health care as most other high-income nations. In 2021, the United States spent 17.8% of gross domestic product on health care, nearly twice as much as the average OECD country...

The United States also possess the highest rate of physical assault deaths, including gun violence, with 7.4 deaths per 100,000 people...

The authors cited 3 reasons for the disparities that make the United States an outlier compared with other high-income countries: unaffordable coverage, high costs, and limited access to effective primary care to better prevent and manage chronic health conditions.

https://www.ajmc.com/view/us-has-hi...y-rates-despite-the-most-health-care-spending


You lack the ability to distinguish between facts and your opinions.

Now tell us the reason we’re “the highest” in infant mortality. Do you even understand what that means? I’ll give you a hint…it’s not counted the same way in the US as it is in other countries. Without even looking, I can almost guarantee Norway doesn’t count babies weighing less than a pound or 21 weeks gestation as being “born.” That would be counted as a stillbirth, unlike here in the US.

So the devil is in the details. Once again, Radicalized leftists making square pegs fit into round holes.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Now tell us the reason we’re “the highest” in infant mortality. Do you even understand what that means? I’ll give you a hint…it’s not counted the same way in the US as it is in other countries. Without even looking, I can almost guarantee Norway doesn’t count babies weighing less than a pound or 21 weeks gestation as being “born.” That would be counted as a stillbirth, unlike here in the US.

So the devil is in the details. Once again, Radicalized leftists making square pegs fit into round holes.

HumpDay makes things up and pretends they are facts. Just like Totally Fact Free Chad and Chloe.

Stable genius.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

HumpDay makes things up and pretends they are facts. Just like Totally Fact Free Chad and Chloe.

Stable genius.

What was “made up?”

Research or “the google” are your friend…

 

[LLCox]

The United Health Care guy had it coming.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Has Carrot Caligula released his "concept of a plan" yet?

or is it still 'two weeks from now"

 

[MajorRewrite]

Has Carrot Caligula released his "concept of a plan" yet?

or is it still 'two weeks from now"

Remarkably, Republicans never mention healthcare anymore. I guess they’re all in love with Obamacare now.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Medicare Advantage plans are a scam that enriches huge medical corporations at the expense of patients and the taxpayers.

If Trump was serious about eliminating waste, fraud and abuse he’d start by eliminating Medicare Advantage. We could save $1 trillion over 10 years.

Instead, Trump increased payouts to Medicare Advantage plans. Support for fraudsters!

 

[MajorRewrite]

Bernie Sanders: It’s time for the US to guarantee healthcare to all

Today, we spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. According to the most recent data, the United States spends $14,570 per person on healthcare compared with just $5,640 in Japan, $6,023 in the United Kingdom, $6,931 in Australia, $7,013 in Canada and $7,136 in France. And yet, despite our huge expenditures, we remain the only major country on Earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right.

The result: some 68,000 people in our country die each year because they can’t afford to go to a doctor when they should, and more than half a million Americans go bankrupt due to medically related debt. In the US today, 42% of cancer patients deplete their entire life savings within the first two years of their diagnosis while one out of every four declared bankruptcy or lost their homes to foreclosure or eviction in 2022.

For all of these reasons and many more, I am proud to be re-introducing Medicare for All in the Senate. My colleague, the representative Pramila Jayapal, is introducing this same bill in the House.

Our legislation would provide comprehensive healthcare coverage to all without out-of-pocket expenses and, unlike the current system, it would provide full freedom of choice regarding healthcare providers.

In fact, the congressional budget office has estimated that Medicare for All would save Americans $650bn a year.

Comprehensive coverage. Huge savings.

No wonder MAGAs hate it.