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Thursday, June 24, 2010

We Flunk

No surprise here, as America ranks poorly on health care compared to other selected countries.

We don't even get out of the starting blocks.

Just be careful when you get really old, end up in an old age health facility, and contract Mersa - methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, in the facility. It will be your undoing and now I know of several seniors who passed away contracting Mersa while being in a health care facility.

Reuters: U.S. scores dead last again in healthcare study
Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system, according to a report released on Wednesday.


The United States ranked last when compared to six other countries -- Britain, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, the Commonwealth Fund report found.

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Our non-system is all about $$ anymore. If you have good Ins. is all they care about.

Jim Sande said...

Wads of dough and extreme insurance and the care is amazing.

Glynn Kalara said...

The opposite is true if your broke.