Posted by
Arlanjio on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:39:01 PM
Is it broken?
So much for a “broken” health care system, Americans enjoy much
higher cancer survival rates and better access to certain treatment
than people who receive free health care in Europe and Canada [1,2].
And these are merely a few benefits we often take for granted. The
National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) lists quite a few more in a
recent report [1].
Critics often cite such statistics as
lower life expectancy and higher infant mortality to infer an inferior
American system. As convincing as they may seem, these barometers
always depend far more on other factors like genes, lifestyle, diet,
sanitary conditions, etc. that have little to do with health care
[3,4,5]. For example, Japanese Americans have similar life expectancies
to native Japanese [4]. The “inferior” American system is apparently
not a factor to them.
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