Donald Draper, er,Dick Whitman, um, John Boehner! loves to go on the tube with his drunk, tan face, and say that America has the "finest health care system in the world." Do wereally , though, Boehner? Hells naw. We're not even Rwanda. In Rwanda , 96% of people have health insurance. They have a per-capita income of $550 a year. And they have the most beautiful, gleaming, hospitals in all of central Africa.
Please go look up the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic measurements, and ponder how it might be relevant to the comparison of healthcare systems.
Also, ponder that there basically isn't a national healthcare market in the United States, but rather 50 state markets.
Finally I feel compelled to point out that most of the complexity in the administration of American health care funding has nothing to do with the size of the population, and everything to do with the incredibly fragmented implementation of healthcare funding (TRICARE vs. Medicare vs. 50 different implementations of Medicaid vs. literally tens of thousands of private insurers vs. cash payers vs. non-payers vs. uncompensated care pool). That fragmentation is absolutely <em>not</em> an inevitable result of the size of our population, as demonstrated by the fact that it doesn&#039;t exist in China or Brazil.
As does our taxpayer-funded crop insurance. Keeping Archer-Daniels-Midland safe from the risks of being in business? Absolutely a priority for Congress. Keeping citizens safe from the risks of being persons? Eh... not so much.
(Corporations are not <i>always</i> people too, my friend.)
I&#039;m gonna play devil&#039;s advocate for a moment. First off, I think Rwanda&#039;s success is totally FUCKING AWESOME. However, that being said, comparing it to western medicine, no matter how flawed, can be problematic. For instance, I am a fat dude. Call me Rwanda. I enter into a weight loss competition with a skinny dude. Call him western medicine. If I even think hard, I&#039;m going to lose weight. Seriously (real example). I have changed nothing about my eating and drinking habits. The only thing that has changed is that I now have to walk 1/4 of a mile to the ferry landing to meet my woman when she gets off of work. That&#039;s a 1/2 mile/day. Now, I have no ounces/pounds figures to give you, but for the first time in a long time, my woman can now touch hands when she hugs me. She couldn&#039;t before. If I had been in competition (and I know the overriding concept is not a healthcare competition.) with the skinny dude, he would need a friggin&#039; personal trainer to lose the equivalent amount of weight. He&#039;d need some drill instructor/personal trainer dude yelling, &quot;GIVE ME TWENTY YOU FILTHY MAGGOT&quot;, whereas I would need...&quot;wow, I want to see my lady sooner rather than later so I think I&#039;ll meet her at the boat&quot;. It&#039;s hardly fair, but I would win every time...until I reached a certain point, of course. Then it would be a fair fight.
Rwanda has made great strides because of...mosquito netting? Rwanda is totally the fat dude, medically speaking.
On the flip side, there are too many corporate/rich fuck pieces of rich fucking pieces of shit that would benefit by the US becoming a third world country that I vote we stop this trend right.fucking.now before we become the nation all other nations of the world point to and say, at least we&#039;re not like them. Goddammit...we&#039;re Americans. We put humans on the moon, we sent nearly sentient robots to fucking Mars. There.is.no.excuse.to.not.h...!
Just to so you know, after looking at the proposed National JPEG of fucking Ronald Raygun riding a dinosaur shooting people in Grenada earlier today, the photo by our globe trotting Wonketter has a very distinct, U.S. feature.
Everyone look at the large fan in the middle of the room.
The fan was engineered and manufactured in Lexington, KY by a company called Delta T Corporation but is known and marketed as Big Ass Fan (go ahead, google it ). This is a high volume, low speed fan. It is extremely energy efficient, reliable and moves lots of air at very low velocities. In a health care environment without conventional heating and air conditioning systems, that was a ingenious move. Low air velocities at high volume is a major factor in controlling airborne pathogens.
Well fucking la-de-da. I find it refreshing that Rowanda built a truly energy efficient health care building using off-the-shelf technology at a economical price. When have you seen the goat fucking bloviating colostomy bags in the House or Senate try to make something for the citizens that doesn&#039;t fucking kill people or start wars? Cool report John.
Aw shucks. If I were in a position to hire people I&#039;d give you a job just on your Wonkette comments.Good luck my friend.
Please go look up the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic measurements, and ponder how it might be relevant to the comparison of healthcare systems.
Also, ponder that there basically isn&#039;t a national healthcare market in the United States, but rather 50 state markets.
Finally I feel compelled to point out that most of the complexity in the administration of American health care funding has nothing to do with the size of the population, and everything to do with the incredibly fragmented implementation of healthcare funding (TRICARE vs. Medicare vs. 50 different implementations of Medicaid vs. literally tens of thousands of private insurers vs. cash payers vs. non-payers vs. uncompensated care pool). That fragmentation is absolutely <em>not</em> an inevitable result of the size of our population, as demonstrated by the fact that it doesn&#039;t exist in China or Brazil.
As does our taxpayer-funded crop insurance. Keeping Archer-Daniels-Midland safe from the risks of being in business? Absolutely a priority for Congress. Keeping citizens safe from the risks of being persons? Eh... not so much.
(Corporations are not <i>always</i> people too, my friend.)
I&#039;m gonna play devil&#039;s advocate for a moment. First off, I think Rwanda&#039;s success is totally FUCKING AWESOME. However, that being said, comparing it to western medicine, no matter how flawed, can be problematic. For instance, I am a fat dude. Call me Rwanda. I enter into a weight loss competition with a skinny dude. Call him western medicine. If I even think hard, I&#039;m going to lose weight. Seriously (real example). I have changed nothing about my eating and drinking habits. The only thing that has changed is that I now have to walk 1/4 of a mile to the ferry landing to meet my woman when she gets off of work. That&#039;s a 1/2 mile/day. Now, I have no ounces/pounds figures to give you, but for the first time in a long time, my woman can now touch hands when she hugs me. She couldn&#039;t before. If I had been in competition (and I know the overriding concept is not a healthcare competition.) with the skinny dude, he would need a friggin&#039; personal trainer to lose the equivalent amount of weight. He&#039;d need some drill instructor/personal trainer dude yelling, &quot;GIVE ME TWENTY YOU FILTHY MAGGOT&quot;, whereas I would need...&quot;wow, I want to see my lady sooner rather than later so I think I&#039;ll meet her at the boat&quot;. It&#039;s hardly fair, but I would win every time...until I reached a certain point, of course. Then it would be a fair fight.
Rwanda has made great strides because of...mosquito netting? Rwanda is totally the fat dude, medically speaking.
On the flip side, there are too many corporate/rich fuck pieces of rich fucking pieces of shit that would benefit by the US becoming a third world country that I vote we stop this trend right.fucking.now before we become the nation all other nations of the world point to and say, at least we&#039;re not like them. Goddammit...we&#039;re Americans. We put humans on the moon, we sent nearly sentient robots to fucking Mars. There.is.no.excuse.to.not.h...!
hahahaha bitches! i have my private sector gold plated insurance again!! obamacare socielzmmmz!!
best. healthcare. evah!
usa! usa!!
i just finished watching revenge season one.
we have the awesome-est tv content.
mmmmmm...our editrix, a laptop, a hot, bubbly, sudsy bath, and wifi? Ummm, I&#039;ll be right back.
Capitalism produces the best health as long as got can pay upfront. This Minnesota hospital got in trouble for shaking down the patients. <a href="http://www.startribune.com/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.startribune.com/local/148697255.html">http://www.startribune.com/...
Anytime I hear these dimwits claim the USA has the best health care I start yelling at the TeeVee.
Mr Budda, you are my new hero.
Tommy? You rock!
MG? Given my state of current under employment, that means more to me than you could imagine.
There may be difference between Rwandan women and US women. Rwanda women might see health as the overriding guide, whereas US women my see the same driving factor as profit... <a href="http://www.startribune.com/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.startribune.com/local/148697255.html">http://www.startribune.com/...
Just to so you know, after looking at the proposed National JPEG of fucking Ronald Raygun riding a dinosaur shooting people in Grenada earlier today, the photo by our globe trotting Wonketter has a very distinct, U.S. feature.
Everyone look at the large fan in the middle of the room.
The fan was engineered and manufactured in Lexington, KY by a company called Delta T Corporation but is known and marketed as Big Ass Fan (go ahead, google it ). This is a high volume, low speed fan. It is extremely energy efficient, reliable and moves lots of air at very low velocities. In a health care environment without conventional heating and air conditioning systems, that was a ingenious move. Low air velocities at high volume is a major factor in controlling airborne pathogens.
Well fucking la-de-da. I find it refreshing that Rowanda built a truly energy efficient health care building using off-the-shelf technology at a economical price. When have you seen the goat fucking bloviating colostomy bags in the House or Senate try to make something for the citizens that doesn&#039;t fucking kill people or start wars? Cool report John.
Fartknocker
Canada apologizes, once again.
Yeah, but we lead in the world in hubris, exceptionalism, and fast food.
We do have the best healthcare...for 10% of the population that are both insured and not getting actively screwed over by their insurance company.
And I think that 10% number I just pulled out of my ass is probably overly optimistic.