"If Stephen Hawking were British he would be dead" - wtf?

[TaoJoannes]

Found this awesome article, with these awesome statistics.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 72580.html
Healthcare compared

Health spending as a share of GDP

US 16%

UK 8.4%

Public spending on healthcare (% of total spending on healthcare)

US 45%

UK 82%

Health spending per head

US $7,290

UK $2,992

Practising physicians (per 1,000 people)

US 2.4

UK 2.5

Nurses (per 1,000 people)

US 10.6

UK 10.0

Acute care hospital beds (per 1,000 people)

US 2.7

UK 2.6

Life expectancy:

US 78

UK 80

Infant mortality (per 1,000 live births)

US 6.7

UK 4.8

Source: WHO/OECD Health Data 2009

[qiphlow]

we aren't going for health care reform in the US. we're helping the insurance industry to be strong and healthy.

[Teazer]

Found this awesome article, with these awesome statistics.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 72580.html
Healthcare compared

Interesting article

[grzegorz]

we aren't going for health care reform in the US. we're helping the insurance industry to be strong and healthy.

Just did some research after reading your comment and you're right Jeff.

The government is going to subsidize private insurance companies for those who can't afford health care.

I'd hate to see those bastards at Kaiser get any richer but I guess that's the way it's going to be.

Single payer health care would be too much of a big step for this country.

Americans always have to be different.

[qiphlow]

we aren't going for health care reform in the US. we're helping the insurance industry to be strong and healthy.

Just did some research after reading your comment and you're right Jeff.

The government is going to subsidize private insurance companies for those who can't afford health care.

I'd hate to see those bastards at Kaiser get any richer but I guess that's the way it's going to be.

Single payer health care would be too much of a big step for this country.

Americans always have to be different.

our government is great at business as usual. we could probably take 5% of our war budget and have a single payer system completely funded. it's really too bad that the congress can't think beyond the protection racket that is health insurance.

[grzegorz]

That's right Jeff, that's the sad reality of the States.

The Government and the corporations are in a backroom making deals while the other 90% of us are fighting amongst each other as if we can really change the outcome of things to come.