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People like to complain about US health care but it's still one of the best in the world. If you look at survival rates, the US tends to score pretty well. The
by dx034 7y ago
People like to complain about US health care but it's still one of the best in the world. If you look at survival rates, the US tends to score pretty well. The system is certainly expensive and not always available to everyone, but it still offers very high quality care to a large percentage of the population. Both research and care are also well funded and may be able to afford new treatments faster than other countries.
- engineeringwoke 7y agoFind me this survival rates statistic. Nothing I can find corroborates your claim. Here is some good data that shows off the poor U.S. healthcare system: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality-u-s-healthcare-system-compare-countries/ https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...
- dx034 7y agoI was referring to the stats on this Wikipedia page[1]. But even the page you linked says that while life expectancy is lower and disease burden is higher, people admitted to hospital have an equal or even better chance of recovery compared to other countries, depending on the illness. So the US population is sicker but hospitals are probably not the problem. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_of_healthcare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_o...