[MD] Low Quality Health Care

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Ian]
> Agreed - who on earth would want health care whose quality was reduced to
> meaningless numbers and statistics.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Yeah, our system of Social Darwinism is soooo much better than those evil Brits
> and their "everyone gets treatment" bile. Let the poor and uninsured die like
> they should, and decrease the surplus population.
> 
> Not to mention that no one in the American Health Care System is reduced to
> numbers and statistics...why, ours is a magical land where elves and pixie
> faeries hand out lollipops and gumdrops and everyone is treated like a human
> being... well, everyone who can PAY that is... methinks the Oompa Loompas have
> taken over the Chocolate Factory.
> 
> Either that or the Master Baiter is goin' fishin' again.
> 
> Now stop being sensible and Kill the Poor, as Jello would say.

In their eagerness to smear those they disagree with, liberals like Ian, Arlo
and Krimel easily bypass truth:

>From Scotland's Daily Record, June 4, 2007

462,000 DEATHS CAUSED BY NHS
Failings are revealed
By Natalie Walker

POOR NHS treatment has led to almost half a million Scots dying in the last 30 years,
a new study has revealed.

Doctors at Glasgow University found that between 1974 and 2003, a total of 462,000
people died in Scotland as a result of health service failings

It means Scotland has one of the highest avoidable death rates in western Europe.

The study examined the number of deaths caused by a lack of "timely and effective
health care".

The vast majority of people - around 250,000 - who died due to inadequate or delayed
treatment were heart or stroke patients.

Another 7300 had cancer and slightly more than 2000 were pneumonia patients.

The study revealed that avoidable deaths among men in Scotland over the time period
was 176 for every 100,000 people.

This compared with 159 in Portugal, 129 in Austria and 100 in Italy.

Rates for women were 123 per 100,000, also higher than every other European country
investigated.








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