Why would we want government health care??

[5412]

Hi Folks,

I heard this on Limbaugh today and checked the American Heritage Website.  What they have is long and well documented but here is the gist of it.  Basically it makes the point that the last thing we need is the federal government messing anymore with our health care system.

regards,
5412

Heritage: 10 Facts About American Health Care

Limbaugh says, "One of the things that people apparently want more and more government involved in is health care.  And our buddies at the Heritage Foundation, working together with the National Center for Policy Analysis and the Hoover Institution, have identified "10 things you probably did not know about health care." 

Here are the ten.  I'm not going to read everything. I'll just read the ten things.  There are paragraphs associated with the ten things to prove them and back them up. 

"Fact No. 1: Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.
 
Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians." Europeans and Canadians have government-run health care.

"Fact No. 3: Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.

 Fact No. 4: Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.

Fact No. 5: Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.

"Fact No. 6: Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the U.K. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long -- sometimes more than a year -- to see a specialist, to have elective surgery like hip replacements or to get radiation treatment for cancer.

Fact No. 7: People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.

Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.

Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K." Read "MRI" there.

"Fact No. 10: Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations."

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

If the gov't runs all the dentists too we can have teeth like the British!

[rich_t]

Hi Folks,

I heard this on Limbaugh today and checked the American Heritage Website.  What they have is long and well documented but here is the gist of it.  Basically it makes the point that the last thing we need is the federal government messing anymore with our health care system.

regards,
5412

Heritage: 10 Facts About American Health Care

Limbaugh says, "One of the things that people apparently want more and more government involved in is health care.  And our buddies at the Heritage Foundation, working together with the National Center for Policy Analysis and the Hoover Institution, have identified "10 things you probably did not know about health care." 

Here are the ten.  I'm not going to read everything. I'll just read the ten things.  There are paragraphs associated with the ten things to prove them and back them up. 

"Fact No. 1: Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.
 
Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians." Europeans and Canadians have government-run health care.

"Fact No. 3: Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.

 Fact No. 4: Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.

Fact No. 5: Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.

"Fact No. 6: Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the U.K. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long -- sometimes more than a year -- to see a specialist, to have elective surgery like hip replacements or to get radiation treatment for cancer.

Fact No. 7: People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.

Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.

Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K." Read "MRI" there.

"Fact No. 10: Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations."

Good points all.  I have friends in Canada that agree that their system sucks.