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If you live the United States, it is not a stupid metric. We should be focused on improving our system in ways that realistic and possible to achieve. Discussi

If you live the United States, it is not a stupid metric. We should be focused on improving our system in ways that realistic and possible to achieve. Discussion of great ideas that could never be implemented would be largely academic when considering how the American system can be improved.

RobertoG 9y ago
Fair enough, but, at least, they should speak about how those reference countries are doing against the rest. In the World Health Organization ranking (1), of all the countries compared in the article, the only one that appears between the first ten in any of the categories (except cost) is France and, in only one metric, Australia and the UK. Not pointing that seems a strange omission. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_ranking_of_health_systems_in_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_rank...
- smcl 9y ago
  That's not correct - are we looking at the same table? There are more of the reference countries in the top 10 of the various categories (except cost). Here's the number of times each appear in the top ten categories in the Wikipedia article you posted: Canada: 1 Singapore: 1 Germany: 0 Switzerland: 3 France: 3 UK: 2 Australia: 1 The other larger* countries that feature in the top-ten of these categories - Japan, Sweden, Spain, Austria - all have universal healthcare. I'm not sure where you stand, but it seems that no matter how you slice it Americans are getting a raw deal with their healthcare. * = those roughly the same population as the smallest country on the list - Switzerland - or more
  - RobertoG 9y ago
    You are right, I was wrong. Specifically, I don't know how I missed Switzerland there. Obviously, I should double check before posting.
hueving 9y ago
It's still a stupid metric if the judges scores contain subjective priorities because that makes it impossible to make a clear argument about the outcome.
FireBeyond 9y ago
The title of this article is "The Best Healthcare System In The World". I am fairly certain the designers of such systems did not consider "the ease, cost, or willingness of the USA to implement the same thing".

RobertoG 9y ago

Fair enough, but, at least, they should speak about how those reference countries are doing against the rest. In the World Health Organization ranking (1), of all the countries compared in the article, the only one that appears between the first ten in any of the categories (except cost) is France and, in only one metric, Australia and the UK. Not pointing that seems a strange omission. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_ranking_of_health_systems_in_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_rank...

smcl 9y ago
That's not correct - are we looking at the same table? There are more of the reference countries in the top 10 of the various categories (except cost). Here's the number of times each appear in the top ten categories in the Wikipedia article you posted: Canada: 1 Singapore: 1 Germany: 0 Switzerland: 3 France: 3 UK: 2 Australia: 1 The other larger* countries that feature in the top-ten of these categories - Japan, Sweden, Spain, Austria - all have universal healthcare. I'm not sure where you stand, but it seems that no matter how you slice it Americans are getting a raw deal with their healthcare. * = those roughly the same population as the smallest country on the list - Switzerland - or more
- RobertoG 9y ago
  You are right, I was wrong. Specifically, I don't know how I missed Switzerland there. Obviously, I should double check before posting.

hueving 9y ago

It's still a stupid metric if the judges scores contain subjective priorities because that makes it impossible to make a clear argument about the outcome.

FireBeyond 9y ago

The title of this article is "The Best Healthcare System In The World". I am fairly certain the designers of such systems did not consider "the ease, cost, or willingness of the USA to implement the same thing".