PRESIDENT KEEPS SHOWING HOW TO BE HEALTY IN AMERICA

I DID NOT REALIZE HE HAD TO DRUG IT ON TO GET PEOPLE TO UNDERDSTAND
THAT THERE IS NO MAGIC IN CANADA AND OTHER COUNTRIES WITH CENTRALIZED
MDICAL SYSTEM. THESE COUNTRIES HAVE PRIVATE CARE - BUT IS IS MUCH LESS
SPECAILIZED. IN USA PRIVATE SECTOR HAS STATE OF THE ART. BUT SOIME
CHARGE GOVERMENT EVEN THOUGHT MAKIMNG BIG PROFITS - THIS ONE COULD
GIVE IN.

( IN CANADA RESEARCH RESO=URCES ARE THE PEROBLEM;
REACH THERE DO NOT SUFFER BUT THE POOR POPULATION FOR LIFE NEVER GETS
FROM OUT OF MEDIOCRACY - DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTION OF THE SERVICES)

MR OBAMA BE A CINDIRELA VISITING PUBLIC SECTOR IN USA : O, "MAYBE
WE GET THE TEAM "- WHILE TEAMS ARE RUNNING THE HOPITAL UNITS FOR AT
LEAST 10-15 AND SOME SINCE ABOUT
MID 80-TIES ( LIKE TEACHING HOSPITALS INCLUDING NYU)

SOME FANTACIZE THAT ONE WILL DICTATE THE DRs UNDER CAPITALIZM HOW MUCH
TO CHARGE - THAT IS WHEN OBAMA MISSED THE CIVIC SERVICE ALL TOGETHER
SUCH OPTION SEEMS REAL TO HIM.

I CAN NOT BELIEVE WHAT I SEE. PREZIDENT IS NOT EXPOSED TO HEALTH CARE
AT ALL
BUT HAS ANSWER FROM 40 YEARS AGO - WE SURE MOVED SINCE THAN.

HALLO - DEMOCRATIC IN USA DOES NOT MEAN LEFTIST!
.....
Policy Analysis no. 613



The Grass Is Not Always Greener: A Look at National Health Care
Systems Around the World
by Michael D. Tanner

....
Critics of the U.S. health care system frequently point to other
countries as models for reform. They point out that many countries
spend far less on health care than the United States yet seem to enjoy
better health outcomes. The United States should follow the lead of
those countries, the critics say, and adopt a government- run,
national health care system.

However, a closer look shows that nearly all health care systems
worldwide are wrestling with problems of rising costs and lack of
access to care. There is no single international model for national
health care, of course. Countries vary dramatically in the degree of
central control, regulation, and cost sharing they impose, and in the
role of private insurance. Still, overall trends from national health
care systems around the world suggest the following:

Health insurance does not mean universal access to health care. In
practice, many countries promise universal coverage but ration care or
have long waiting lists for treatment.

Rising health care costs are not a uniquely American phenomenon.
Although other countries spend considerably less than the United
States on health care, both as a percentage of GDP and per capita,
costs are rising almost everywhere, leading to budget deficits, tax
increases, and benefit reductions.
In countries weighted heavily toward government control, people are
most likely to face waiting lists, rationing, restrictions on
physician choice, and other obstacles to care.
Countries with more effective national health care systems are
successful to the degree that they incorporate market mechanisms such
as competition, cost sharing, market prices, and consumer choice, and
eschew centralized government control.
Although no country with a national health care system is
contemplating abandoning universal coverage, the broad and growing
trend is to move away from centralized government control and to
introduce more market-oriented features.

Michael Tanner is director of health and welfare studies at the Cato
Institute and coauthor of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back
Health Care and How to Free It (second edition, 2007).

More by Michael D. Tanner

The answer then to America’s health care problems lies not in heading
down the road to national health care but in learning from the
experiences of other countries, which demonstrate the failure of
centralized command and control and the benefits of increasing
consumer incentives and choice.

I DID NOT KNOW THAT HE HAS ANSWERED THIS FIRST - MUST HAVE BEEN HIDDEN
OR RESISTED.
.

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