1 Response to The Health Care Debate

1. nicob says:

   March 20, 2006 at 4:10 am

   The most interesting thing about the study is that it reports that on average, Americans received poor-quality health care. Squabbling about which groups receive that poor quality care more seems to me to be irrelevant. In fact, any consideration of modelling a health care system after that of the USA seems to me to be folly, frankly.
   The salient point of the study for me (after that, the breakdown of how it plays out is academic, well-suited for polemic purposes) is this:
   The quality of American medical care falls short of expectations. We have previously reported that U.S. adults receive about half of recommended health care services.
   I would be far more interested in the results of a similar study if it were conducted in The Bahamas. My personal experience (admittedly skewed, of course, owing to the presence of doctors in my family) has been that the best health care I have received or witnessed others receive has been in Nassau, Halifax (NS, Canada), and Cambridge (UK) — not necesssarily in that order.

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