Comments on: Best Healthcare In The World? http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:01:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Elisabetta http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387650 Elisabetta Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:23:50 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387650 On the same note ~ Life expectancy is more related to diet and exercise than healthcare. On the same note ~

Life expectancy is more related to diet and exercise than healthcare.

]]> By: Elisabetta http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387649 Elisabetta Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:21:35 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387649 Who's paying $1,500 (yearly I suppose) on healthcare? Let me know, I'll sign up at once! Socialized medicine is not what it's bragged out to be. Alan said it right, PEOPLE not the government pay for healthcare in countries like Cuba or Europe. Why don't you ask a transplanted Cuban how wonderful things are under Fidel? Who’s paying $1,500 (yearly I suppose) on healthcare? Let me know, I’ll sign up at once! Socialized medicine is not what it’s bragged out to be.
Alan said it right, PEOPLE not the government pay for healthcare in countries like Cuba or Europe.

Why don’t you ask a transplanted Cuban how wonderful things are under Fidel?

]]> By: Tony Lambiris http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387617 Tony Lambiris Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:09:34 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387617 Great graphs. I knew we spent an incredible about money (not because we WANT to) on health care here, and especially in this case a picture does speak a thousand words. I've never been to Japan, but I can only surmise it's due to their Eastern culture of traditional uses of herbs and spices for most ailments. I'd get behind natural supplements than some manufactured syrup concocted in a laboratory. I wish we would embrace more eastern philosophies in this regard. Great graphs. I knew we spent an incredible about money (not because we WANT to) on health care here, and especially in this case a picture does speak a thousand words.

I’ve never been to Japan, but I can only surmise it’s due to their Eastern culture of traditional uses of herbs and spices for most ailments. I’d get behind natural supplements than some manufactured syrup concocted in a laboratory. I wish we would embrace more eastern philosophies in this regard.

]]> By: Orlando http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387590 Orlando Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:20:57 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387590 Don't sully this great blog by putting any positive spin on Cuban health care. Misinformation, corruption, indentured servitude (the regime uses doctors as a bartering commodity, forcing them to leave the country and work on someone else's sick while their family suffers), forced abortions, and pure apartheid does not make for a good healthcare system. Don’t sully this great blog by putting any positive spin on Cuban health care.

Misinformation, corruption, indentured servitude (the regime uses doctors as a bartering commodity, forcing them to leave the country and work on someone else’s sick while their family suffers), forced abortions, and pure apartheid does not make for a good healthcare system.

]]> By: Jimmy the Dhimmi http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387579 Jimmy the Dhimmi Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:30:12 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387579 ASC asks the right questions. Also, life expectancy is not always the best way to measure healthcare either. the scale in the graph generally differs only by about 2 to 3 years. Denmark and Sweden have similar societies, they both spend about the same, but are on opposite ends of the life-expectancy timeline. Perhaps a study should be done on survival rates for cancer, infectious disease, injury rehabilitation, ect. ASC asks the right questions. Also, life expectancy is not always the best way to measure healthcare either. the scale in the graph generally differs only by about 2 to 3 years. Denmark and Sweden have similar societies, they both spend about the same, but are on opposite ends of the life-expectancy timeline.

Perhaps a study should be done on survival rates for cancer, infectious disease, injury rehabilitation, ect.

]]> By: Alan Stewart Carl http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387578 Alan Stewart Carl Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:11:58 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2008/01/02/best-healthcare-in-the-world/#comment-387578 Without defending our healthcare system in any way, I question whether these statistics take into account the amount residents of other nations spend in healthcare taxes. I also wonder what the average life expectancy is of U.S. residents who've lived here from birth -- our high immigrant population from poor countries (people who had inadequate or no healthcare earlier in life) must have some effect on our average life expectancy. Still, there is no doubt that our system is terribly ineffecient. We have a ridiculous system that is neither free market nor socialized. Without defending our healthcare system in any way, I question whether these statistics take into account the amount residents of other nations spend in healthcare taxes. I also wonder what the average life expectancy is of U.S. residents who’ve lived here from birth — our high immigrant population from poor countries (people who had inadequate or no healthcare earlier in life) must have some effect on our average life expectancy.

Still, there is no doubt that our system is terribly ineffecient. We have a ridiculous system that is neither free market nor socialized.

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