Jul 8, 2009

Mark Steyn:

If health care "systems" are so critical to your health, why is there an entirely negligible difference in outcomes?

Life expectancy in the European Union 78.7 years; life expectancy in the United States 78.06 years; life expectancy in Albania 77.6 years; life expectancy in Libya, 76.88 years; life expectancy in Bosnia & Herzegovina, 78.17 years. Once you get on top of childhood mortality and basic hygiene, everything else is peripheral – margin-of-error territory. Maybe we could get another six months by adopting EU-style socialized health care. Or we could get another six weeks by reducing the Lower 48 to rubble in an orgy of bloodletting, which seems to have done wonders for Bosnian longevity...Even within the United States, even within the Medicare system, there are regions that offer twice as much “health care” per patient – twice as many check-ups, pills, tests, operations – for no discernible variation in outcome.

1 comment:

  1. Yo he tenido que pelear con excelentes prepagas en circunstancias tragicas y la verdad es bastante fea: cuando las papas realmente queman (cuando necesitas atencion por mas de 50 lucas verdes, lease cuando EsS de vida o muerte) te dejan a gamba todos.
    Por eso es que realmente no hay diferencia. Está en la letra chica. Es solo que uno no la lee por no querer pensar en depender jamas de la letra chica del contrato de tu prepaga.
    Lo de todos los dias te lo cubre cualquiera.

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