US healthcare most expensive compared to 6 other Western Countries

[Bert Blitzkrieg]

The U.S. health system is the most expensive in the world, but comparative analyses consistently show the United States underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Fund-Reports/2010/Jun/Mirror-Mirror-Update.aspx


So, one could argue that the future changes are a good thing ?

 

[Hedgehog]

The U.S. health system is the most expensive in the world, but comparative analyses consistently show the United States underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/Fund-Reports/2010/Jun/Mirror-Mirror-Update.aspx


So, one could argue that the future changes are a good thing ?

 

[Hedgehog]

nterest report there mate, looking at that it does make you wonder how Obama's scheme will work, carring all those people who do not pay any thing towards medical health, with insurance or other wise, I think he means well but where OH where is the money coming from.......

 

[Bert Blitzkrieg]

I think a lot of people in the US don't have healthinsurance because it is so extremely expensive. Nevertheless a hospital is obliged to give healthcare whether the person has insurance or not.

A lot more premium will be received, the premiums will go down and the number of insured people rise when the mandatory health insurance exists. I doubt if it will make the helathsystem that much more expensive.

 

[McIvan]

I got the impression that whatever Obama ended up with was so watered down due to the hysterical reaction it received that it is probably not really any better than what the uS has now.

There certainly seemed to be large numbers of people determined to ensure healthcare insurers add a completely unnecessary and ruinously expensive layer of cost that has a vested financial interest in denying claims and forcing people that notify new potential conditions off healthcare by raising premiums and excesses until they drop out or get bankrupted.

 

[Hedgehog]

I think a lot of people in the US don't have healthinsurance because it is so extremely expensive. Nevertheless a hospital is obliged to give healthcare whether the person has insurance or not.

A lot more premium will be received, the premiums will go down and the number of insured people rise when the mandatory health insurance exists. I doubt if it will make the helathsystem that much more expensive.

Not sure if that is right, if more people drop out of insurance surely the cost must fall on the state, hence you get into a lousy situation

 

[USS Wyoming]

Sorry to disappoint, but the day will not arrive where Americans are forced to buy a health insurance policy. it will never happen. The Constitution protects citizens from having to purchase ANY product. We don't have to buy insurance for a car, if that car is never driven on a public road. We are free to never buy a house or rent an apartment.

The federal government cannot compel a citizen to buy anything.

 

[Bert Blitzkrieg]

The Constitution protects citizens from having to purchase ANY product. The federal government cannot compel a citizen to buy anything.

There is a workaround to this: call it NHS (or something like that) and get the money for it by taxation.