FUCK THE POLICE
911 EVERY DAY
Conservatives.
ib1yysguy
Junior Member
You can't remove greed from a for-profit system. That's why healthcare needs to be removed from being a for-profit system. Then the greed factor will be eliminated.
Sammy Jankis
Was it me?
There is still greed in government takeovers, the power of the state is used to those ends as well, in that case. Price fixing merely guarantees future rationing, and genocide becomes a means of cost cuttting, as political enemies are dehumanized and trimmed as "fat" from the system.
It usually starts with the deformed and elderly, and ends with any thought criminal who dare criticize the oligarchy.
Fishy alert. flag@whitehouse.gov
Obama, this means you.
SmarterthanYou
rebel
removing medical care from the capitalist environment is exactly the move needed to destroy quality healthcare.
C
Cancel4
Guest
"Quality healthcare?"
Given what Americans pay, we are not getting our money's worth under the status quo, according to many studies, including this one:
"...growing evidence indicates the system falls short given the high level of resources committed to health care. Although national health spending is significantly higher than the average rate of other industrialized countries, the U.S. is the only industrialized country that fails to guarantee universal health insurance and coverage is deteriorating, leaving millions without affordable access to preventive and essential health care. Quality of care is highly variable and delivered by a system that is too often poorly coordinated, driving up costs, and putting patients at risk. With rising costs straining family, business, and public budgets, access deteriorating and variable quality, improving health care performance is a matter of national urgency."
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Con...recard-on-U-S--Health-System-Performance.aspx
"Each year since 2003, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), together with its partners in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has reported on progress and opportunities for improving health care quality, as mandated by the U.S. Congress. The information amassed for the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) since its inception is a growing knowledge base that addresses two critically important questions:
What is the status of health care quality in the United States?
How is the quality of the health care delivered to Americans changing over time?"
"Three themes from the 2008 NHQR emphasize the need to accelerate progress if the Nation is to achieve high-quality health care. These themes also reflect the challenges that still remain:
Health care quality is suboptimal and continues to improve at a slow pace.
Reporting of hospital quality is leading improvement, but patient safety is lagging. Health care quality measurement is evolving, but much work remains."
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhqr08/Key.htm
"The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems was last produced in 2000, and the WHO no longer produces such a ranking table, because of the complexity of the task."
http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
Given what Americans pay, we are not getting our money's worth under the status quo, according to many studies, including this one:
"...growing evidence indicates the system falls short given the high level of resources committed to health care. Although national health spending is significantly higher than the average rate of other industrialized countries, the U.S. is the only industrialized country that fails to guarantee universal health insurance and coverage is deteriorating, leaving millions without affordable access to preventive and essential health care. Quality of care is highly variable and delivered by a system that is too often poorly coordinated, driving up costs, and putting patients at risk. With rising costs straining family, business, and public budgets, access deteriorating and variable quality, improving health care performance is a matter of national urgency."
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Con...recard-on-U-S--Health-System-Performance.aspx
"Each year since 2003, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), together with its partners in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has reported on progress and opportunities for improving health care quality, as mandated by the U.S. Congress. The information amassed for the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) since its inception is a growing knowledge base that addresses two critically important questions:
What is the status of health care quality in the United States?
How is the quality of the health care delivered to Americans changing over time?"
"Three themes from the 2008 NHQR emphasize the need to accelerate progress if the Nation is to achieve high-quality health care. These themes also reflect the challenges that still remain:
Health care quality is suboptimal and continues to improve at a slow pace.
Reporting of hospital quality is leading improvement, but patient safety is lagging. Health care quality measurement is evolving, but much work remains."
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhqr08/Key.htm
"The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems was last produced in 2000, and the WHO no longer produces such a ranking table, because of the complexity of the task."
http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html