U.S. health care is not inferior

Denver Post by Vincent Carroll | Jun. 24, 2009 (Opinion)

The most annoying claim in America's health-care debate? Easy. It's the repeated charge that the U.S. gets inferior results despite spending much more on health care than other countries.

Often this claim will be followed with the superficially appalling news that U.S. health care is ranked 37th in overall performance by the World Health Organization. Full Story »

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 by Gary Clark - Jun. 24, 2009

This is a shallow apologia for a failed US health care industry. The author admits it's "in need of reform. It's inefficient, its costs are rising at unsustainable rates and it leaves too many people uninsured." Then he damns by faint praise, "most Americans do get something for the fortune they pour into health care — pretty good treatment, at least compared to the rest of the world."

Any evaluation of American health problems should examine hazardous factory food-like substances and associated chemical laden environments issuing them, in addition to our sedentary lifestyles.

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