Ignoring the positives of American health care

June 20, 2007

Don’t go to Sicko looking for any:

Moore ignores the positive side altogether. For all its problems, the United States still provides the highest-quality health care in the world. 18 of the last 25 winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine either are U.S. citizens or work here. With no price controls, free-market U.S. medicine provides the incentives that lead to innovation breakthroughs in new drugs and other medical technologies.

U.S. companies have developed half of all the major new medicines introduced worldwide over the past 20 years, and according to a survey by the president’s Council of Economic Advisors, Americans have played a key role in 80 percent of the most important medical advances of the past 30 years.

(via Health Care BS)

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{ 6 comments }

1 Mike June 20, 2007 at 8:51 am: Don’t confuse the socialized med nuts with the facts. They still cling to their “fetal mortality” statistics like Bible thumpers to their rosary beads.
2 Anonymous June 20, 2007 at 9:52 am: All this wonderful quality doesn’t mean very much when there are people who are uninsured or underinsured and can’t afford to pay for it, or who live in underserved rural or inner-city areas where they don’t have access to the latest and greatest.
3 Elliott June 20, 2007 at 11:06 am: I’m pretty sure that most of those Nobel prize winners would be indicted for practicing medicine without a license. Although most are entitled to be called doctor, it’s a PhD and not an M.D. Spin much Kevin? Why is it that almost all of the BS at Health Care BS is from David Catron. He’s an unrepentant BS artist.
4 scalpel June 20, 2007 at 11:15 am: “All this wonderful quality doesn’t mean very much when there are people who are uninsured or underinsured and can’t afford to pay for it…”

That’s more an indictment of capitalism than our healthcare system then, isn’t it?
5 Mike June 20, 2007 at 1:05 pm: scalpel.. EXACTLY!! Let em move to a noncapitalist country if they dont like it. Or they can just accept that we’re doing the best we can in the system,and there’s room for improvement. But not for socialism.
6 Anonymous June 20, 2007 at 1:48 pm: I don’t know that you can exactly call a system where govt. pays for 40% of all expenditures “capitalism”. Our healthcare system is a hybrid at best.