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Well, a new health care study titled "Mirror, Mirror 2017: International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities for Better U.S. Health Care" is out, and America's health care system came in last - again. All the while, we are spending twice what other countries are spending!!!!!

For those who want to defend the US system by saying we have better cancer treatment or some such thing, the study says "We based our analysis on 72 indicators that measure performance in five domains important to policymakers, providers, patients, and the public: Care Process, Access, Administrative Efficiency, Equity, and Health Care Outcomes."

This was America's score compared to the other 10 developed countries in the study:

Care Process - 11th, that is dead last!

Access - 5th, only one even close to average!

Administrative Efficiency - 10th, next to last!

Equity - 11th, that is dead last!

Health Care Outcomes - 11th, that is dead last! ...See More
Bob R/CA Without a consistently measured prior score, how can you state "no improvement"?
Jul 14, 2017
T.E.C. - Iowa You did not look up the study and at least scan through the graphs. The graph in the study would not copy, but below is a similar one. The US is "still" such an outlier that Obamacare, whenever improvements it produced, has done near nothing in the years since 2010.

Plus, the study says this:

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In conclusion, the pe...See More
Jul 15, 2017
Bob R/CA If you can't 1) demonstrate scores versus a prior year and 2) show the scores have not changed, you can't establish that an intervening factor had no effect. If the US were last in two years, that would only demonstrate they did not become better than the next lowest, not that there was no improvement.

You don't appear to have even a meas...See More
Jul 15, 2017
T.E.C. - Iowa You are setting up an unnecessary requirement. The study I am citing is a 2017 study and American health care is still unbelievably horrifying. Obamacare passed in 2010 and we are still far worse than any other country. If Obamacare was the panacea you want to claim, this study should have shown us something "significant." It did not!

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Jul 16, 2017
Bob R/CA If you don't have a prior measurement, how can you make any claim about improvement? You must know you can't make that argument without a second data point.
Jul 16, 2017


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