From Your Post: ~"Many countries, including the United States, Sweden or Germany, count an infant exhibiting any sign of life as alive, no matter the month of gestation or the size, but according to United States Centers for Disease Control researchers, some other countries differ in these practices."
Using your data from your site... The USA, Sweden and Germany all use the same formula for infant mortality. Disregarding all other countries... Sweden and Germany still do a better job at infant mortality than the USA.
How do those two countries differ from the USA? All three have a similar drug use, the USA limits smoking in public buildings reducing the effect of 2nd hand smoke on moms and infants... All three have teen pregnancy problems... Where are these countries different?
Sweden & Germany have universal health care for ALL it's citizens... The USA doesn't.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Since you want to rely on skewed statistics, how about these rankings
Here’s a Second Opinion by Scott W. Atlas Ten reasons why America’s health care system is in better condition than you might suppose. By Scott W. Atlas.
Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers, and academics beat the drum for a far larger government role in health care. Much of the public assumes that their arguments are sound because the calls for change are so ubiquitous and the topic so complex. Before we turn to government as the solution, however, we should consider some unheralded facts about America’s health care system.
1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.
2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher.
3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them.
4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer:
Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).
Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians.
More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent).
Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent).
5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report “excellent” health (11.7 percent) compared to Canadian seniors (5.8 percent). Conversely, white, young Canadian adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower-income Americans to describe their health as “fair or poor.”
6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long—sometimes more than a year—to see a specialist, have elective surgery such as hip replacements, or get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In Britain, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.
7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British adults say their health system needs either “fundamental change” or “complete rebuilding.”
8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,” more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared with only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent).
9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain. An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade—even as economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful. The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain.
10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.
Despite serious challenges, such as escalating costs and care for the uninsured, the U.S. health care system compares favorably to those in other developed countries.
I agree Chris, if we didn't have the best health-care in the world people from the other countries wouldn't be coming here for serious operations that they need now instead of waiting for months to get surgery in their country of lower quality.
Rox - I am sure the healthcare that you want would push us to number 1 in certain categories.
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...yeah, everyone I know is heading to Senegal, Belgium and Honduras for triple bypass, tumor removal, and spinal surgery where they can immediately get on the waiting list for 6 years. Also, it is affordable. You can have your operation and your funeral all in one shot. Only a clear imbecile would want to dismantle the healthcare system in America just so the wonderful government workers can control (and unionize) it. The sad part is, if they cared an ounce about peoples' lives, and not political control, they wouldn't being lower than whalesh!t democraps. But they don't.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Chris. My view on abortion is the same as Bill Clinton's... Abortion should be safe, legal and rare.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Is GB always this cheerful, or is he having a particularly pleasant week?
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
my point with the abortion statistics is to show how skewed numbers can be when compared across different nations. Stats like that are never a good indicator to use for major reform.
Do you think nations like china or india that have practiced sex-selective abortions, since they desire males, accurately report numbers?
I think that countries that look at abortion as a health issue instead of a religious issue probably have good statistics... there is no reason to fudge the numbers.
Countries that condemn abortion as if it were murder promote hiding the real numbers.
When abortion was illegal in this country, they were always safe and available for the rich. A rich woman would "go abroad", or have a D&C which was really an abortion.
Poor women in the USA faced a jail term and a coat hanger butcher for the procedure.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
We USE to have the best health care in the world! People from all over the world came here seeking the best health care this world had to offer human beings.
That clearly is NOT the case any longer. And boxy is correct. The other countries are equal or better than ours. WHY?? Because between the greedy insurance companies and the government bureaucracy, our health care went down the sh!tter.
You see, it isn't that the other countries actually excel in health care. It isn't that the other countries do a better job than us. The truth is that our country has lowered our health care standards and now we are equal or lower than the other inadequate countries.
From the start of HMO's which added a 'third party' expense to private insurance companies, to government mandates on private insurance companies, to government controlled medicare, to government controlled medicaid, to lower payments to health care professional and health care facilities, our standards were bound to fall. And they did.
Don't fool yourself. The other countries aren't excelling in health care, we just lowered our standards to match theirs.
My friend has been waiting 3 months for an mri of his knee. Yes folks, we ARE just like all of the other countries that boxy speaks of.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. -- The Canadian Medical Association is calling for a ban on mixed martial arts in Canada.
Delegates at the CMA's annual meeting voted Wednesday to have the doctors group seek a government ban on the sport.
The vote came after often contentious debate among 250 doctors at the meeting in Niagara Falls, Ont.
Doctors passed a resolution calling for a ban on MMA "prizefighting," as opposed to recreational pursuit of the sport.
Those in favour of trying to deliver a knockout punch to MMA say the sport puts fighters at risk of severe head trauma and other injuries that could have lifelong effects.
They argue that unlike sports like hockey and skiing, the intent of mixed martial arts is to incapacitate one's opponent.
Seven provinces in Canada now sanction the combat sport.
A modern version of the Gladiators. Pro boxing is bad enough, this 'sport' is closer to legal assault.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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