I couldn’t let slip the fact that I just heard Sen. Orrin Hatch, on Face The Nation, say that “The United States has the best health care system in the world.”
Let’s salute Sen. Hatch as he completes his final term. There isn’t a reason on God’s green earth that this half-ass should be re-elected.
“Despite having the most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms on most dimensions of performance, relative to other countries. This report—an update to two earlier editions—includes data from surveys of patients, as well as information from primary care physicians about their medical practices and views of their countries’ health systems. Compared with five other nations—Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom—the U.S. health care system ranks last or next-to-last on five dimensions of a high performance health system: quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives. The U.S. is the only country in the study without universal health insurance coverage, partly accounting for its poor performance on access, equity, and health outcomes.”
Periscope In The Bathtub 