Comments on: Kennedy releases draft “health care reform” proposal http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/00251 from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:47:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Nancy Centofante MD http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/00251#comment-2557 Nancy Centofante MD Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:40:12 +0000 http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/?p=251#comment-2557 Libs are alway saying that this or that country with socialized medicine has a better health care system than we do in the United States. Have them name a Cancer then name ONE country with better five year survival rates for that Cancer than we have here. Then have them name ONE country where patients receive clot busting drugs in the Golden Hour after onset of chest pain more often than they do here. Have them name ONE country where patients receive revascularization quicker than we do here. Have them name ONE country where a patient can get in to see their doctor for an acute problem quicker than they can here. Have them name ONE country where patients have quicker access to specialists than we have here. They will respond that plenty of countries with socialized medicine have better infant mortality statistics than we have. What they won't tell you is that those countries don't include preemies in their infant mortality statistics. We count all live births hence our statistics are worse. Their statement on better health care is divorced from better outcomes or quicker access. The more socialized the care the higher the WHO score regardless of longer wait times, restricted access to specialty care and poorer outcomes. Libs are alway saying that this or that country with socialized medicine has a better health care system than we do in the United States.

Have them name a Cancer then name ONE country with better five year survival rates for that Cancer than we have here.

Then have them name ONE country where patients receive clot busting drugs in the Golden Hour after onset of chest pain more often than they do here. Have them name ONE country where patients receive revascularization quicker than we do here.

Have them name ONE country where a patient can get in to see their doctor for an acute problem quicker than they can here. Have them name ONE country where patients have quicker access to specialists than we have here.

They will respond that plenty of countries with socialized medicine have better infant mortality statistics than we have. What they won’t tell you is that those countries don’t include preemies in their infant mortality statistics. We count all live births hence our statistics are worse.

Their statement on better health care is divorced from better outcomes or quicker access. The more socialized the care the higher the WHO score regardless of longer wait times, restricted access to specialty care and poorer outcomes.

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