[kj] [OT] Don't stay overnight in a US hospital!

[T.B.]

"B. Oliver Sheppard" wrote:



> Yeah, the article I linked to goes into MLK-Harbor/Drew's problems in 

> depth. It's a symptom of a greater problem, and the MLK experience is 

> admittedly unusually bad EVEN BY U.S. standards, which are lower than the 

> rest of the industrialized world's. Keep in mind I'm in Texas -- not one 

> of the many Brits on this list engaging in idle US-bashing. I know what's 

> rotten when I see it, regardless of country -- and the US health care 

> system is one of the things that's rotten. I don't think there can ever be 

> a perfect health care system, and I don't think anyone's suggested there 

> can be, or that neglect in Canada and the UK don't ever happen, as you 

> seem to imply. But can there be a better one than what we have here, now? 

> Yes.

>

> According to a poll at the non-partisan TheHill.com even 51% of Republican 

> voters want universal health care in the US: 

> http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/poll-shows-many-republicans-favor-universal-healthcare-gays-in-military-2007-06-28.html

>

> It's not some pissing contest with other countries across the world.


You sure won't get an argument from me about how fucked up our healthcare 
system is.  However, I don't think it's a matter of quality but an issue of 
coverage.  A big part of that problem is the shift to medical 
care-for-profit over the last 50 years.

T.B.