Hospitals / Doctors now refusing to take Medicare

[Dan40]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

I did a quick check on the numbers, comparing to Mexico. For drug related iatrogenic cause of death (essentially Doctors/Hosptials responsible for a patients death) were running about the same rate as Mexico on a percentage basis. Mexico actually is a little better than the US in that regard.

The World Health Organization ranks America 15th out 25 civilized Nations for health care. The best health care in the world in America? FAR from it!

Iatrogenic cause of death (death by Doctor) is the THIRD LEADING CAUSE of death in the United States. Our health care system is badly broken.

The WHO is a political organization funded by participating GOVERNMENTS They have and do produce any reports the PAYOR wishes them to produce. Their stats come PRIMARILY from the same Governments that PAY their bills. But in our case, the stats they use come from our reasonably honest and reasonably accurate in depth reporting of our medical groups, not a Government body with a vested interest in the reports. A superb for instance is life expectancy. Most countries only compute life expectancy AFTER a child has survived to 6 months of age. And they do not count military or accidental deaths. In the US we count every life from conception onward. If they die for any reason, that lowers our life expectancy. WHO corruption is what sunk Obummers first lying attempt to say our health care was BAD when it is, was, and will be the best health care system on the planet if the health care bill flounders.

If I quoted a Republican or Conservative organization, you would, AND HAVE, disputed their findings.