One of the wrong questions you will hear raised in the upcoming health care debate is this one: Aren’t the poor outcomes in health care in the United States all the fault of the bad health choices Americans make? Stated baldly: ‘It’s not our fault, it’s those irresponsible citizens who account for the bad health care outcomes.’ As it happens at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University researchers Peter A. Muennig and Sherry A. Glied, asked just this question. They compared the health care systems of 13 first world nations, including the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland….
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
The Illness Profit System and National Security, Part Three
Author: STEPHAN A. SCHWARTZ
Source: The Huffington Post
Publication Date: 1/3/2011 10:58
Link: The Illness Profit System and National Security, Part Three
Source: The Huffington Post
Publication Date: 1/3/2011 10:58
Link: The Illness Profit System and National Security, Part Three
Stephan: This is the third essay of my five-part series on American Healthcare.