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“Hospitals are going broke and closing; soon we’ll all be funneled to a few huge, centralized hospitals far away from our homes,” says a friend of mine in commercial real estate here in the US. All my friends and I (in states from NY, CT, MA, PA, to California) discuss increasing wait times and decreasing numbers of doctors (especially due to retirement of baby boom-aged doctors just as the boomers need them the most). We have varying experiences of today’s doctors…
Accessible healthcare and the myth of free healthcare are two entirely different things. The vast majority of European countries are de facto privatizing healthcare by using taxpayers money to force people to use private clinics. It has nothing to do with government interference. Talking about the US and drugs is quite a tragic subject given the horrible situation you're currently living because of prescription drugs.
The data on hypertension suggests that neither diagnosis nor successful treatment (since USis better in both) results in better outcomes such as all cause mortality or CVD mortality. Seems like treating hypertension doesn’t improve aggregate outcomes. What am I missing?
Hypertension is blood pressure. Drugs lower your BP. The same thing is true on cholesterol. The failed saturated fat heart hypothesis shows that statins dont change all cause mortality.
As many people in the comment already mentioned, this is really rather misleading and the data and examples are often cherry-picked, very selective or falsely concluded.
This is utter nonsense, you can't make a comparison with the currently mismanaged NHS in the UK, 14 years ago we had world leading shortest waiting lists, the way it's funded hasn't changed. Why not compare it to the free system in Norway for instance, and Sweden maybe. THE HOOVER INSTITUTE GASLIGHTING THE POOR.
Another problem with any analysis is comparing little countries with the US. 350 million people versus Sweden which is the same size as Ohio (11 million). It’s not 35 times harder to implement this kind of change, it’s more like 100 X harder. Size matters. There’s nothing keeping any US state from implementing a state wide system. The reason that they wont is because a state cannot print money and do deficit spending. The US needs to borrow ideas from our western allies. First, eliminate TV ads from big Pharma, second make it illegal for US government employees receiving royalties for drugs, third, match Canada or Sweden in terms of drug prices, forth, approved low carb diets for type two diabetes patients, fifth, shorten the number of drugs available. Get rid of the drugs that don’t work. Sixth, retrain all Doctors for metabolic syndrome. This is what causes Alzheimer’s. A major cost factor.
Let us benefit from free market healthcare. This government licensing of all aspects coupled with AMA-fascism forces all doctors to hold just one set of "approved opinions and treatments and pharma drugging" ideas. The MDs today are just learning about nutrition and exercise, which has always been paramount. We are stuck with a limited, forced, expensive alternative that we call government-approved health care.
What mr. Atlas seems to fail to grasp is that the point of the Western-European healthcare system is not to deliver absolute top notch healthcare to everyone. The point is to offer decent healthcare to everyone. The majority of Americans are not insured or have very high deductibles. Becoming ill or having an accident can financially cripple the average American, not the average Western-European. That comes with trade offs, obviously. And sure, the system can be mismanaged. But to argue that it’s somehow an inferior system is ludicrous.
“Hospitals are going broke and closing; soon we’ll all be funneled to a few huge, centralized hospitals far away from our homes,” says a friend of mine in commercial real estate here in the US. All my friends and I (in states from NY, CT, MA, PA, to California) discuss increasing wait times and decreasing numbers of doctors (especially due to retirement of baby boom-aged doctors just as the boomers need them the most). We have varying experiences of today’s doctors…
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To make an impact on health in the US we must control the Farm Bill and steer our food production and soil maintenance in health-promoting directions.
“Hospitals are going broke and closing; soon we’ll all be funneled to a few huge, centralized hospitals far away from our homes,” says a friend of mine in commercial real estate here in the US. All my friends and I (in states from NY, CT, MA, PA, to California) discuss increasing wait times and decreasing numbers of doctors (especially due to retirement of baby boom-aged doctors just as the boomers need them the most). We have varying experiences of today’s doctors…
Accessible healthcare and the myth of free healthcare are two entirely different things.
The vast majority of European countries are de facto privatizing healthcare by using taxpayers money to force people to use private clinics.
It has nothing to do with government interference.
Talking about the US and drugs is quite a tragic subject given the horrible situation you're currently living because of prescription drugs.
The data on hypertension suggests that neither diagnosis nor successful treatment (since USis better in both) results in better outcomes such as all cause mortality or CVD mortality. Seems like treating hypertension doesn’t improve aggregate outcomes. What am I missing?
Hypertension is blood pressure. Drugs lower your BP. The same thing is true on cholesterol. The failed saturated fat heart hypothesis shows that statins dont change all cause mortality.
Getting access to healthcare and having insurance are two different things.
As many people in the comment already mentioned, this is really rather misleading and the data and examples are often cherry-picked, very selective or falsely concluded.
This is utter nonsense, you can't make a comparison with the currently mismanaged NHS in the UK, 14 years ago we had world leading shortest waiting lists, the way it's funded hasn't changed. Why not compare it to the free system in Norway for instance, and Sweden maybe.
THE HOOVER INSTITUTE GASLIGHTING THE POOR.
Another problem with any analysis is comparing little countries with the US. 350 million people versus Sweden which is the same size as Ohio (11 million). It’s not 35 times harder to implement this kind of change, it’s more like 100 X harder. Size matters. There’s nothing keeping any US state from implementing a state wide system. The reason that they wont is because a state cannot print money and do deficit spending. The US needs to borrow ideas from our western allies. First, eliminate TV ads from big Pharma, second make it illegal for US government employees receiving royalties for drugs, third, match Canada or Sweden in terms of drug prices, forth, approved low carb diets for type two diabetes patients, fifth, shorten the number of drugs available. Get rid of the drugs that don’t work. Sixth, retrain all Doctors for metabolic syndrome. This is what causes Alzheimer’s. A major cost factor.
Let us benefit from free market healthcare. This government licensing of all aspects coupled with AMA-fascism forces all doctors to hold just one set of "approved opinions and treatments and pharma drugging" ideas. The MDs today are just learning about nutrition and exercise, which has always been paramount. We are stuck with a limited, forced, expensive alternative that we call government-approved health care.
There’s a reason the UK’s NHS hasn’t been replicated in Western Europe.
What mr. Atlas seems to fail to grasp is that the point of the Western-European healthcare system is not to deliver absolute top notch healthcare to everyone. The point is to offer decent healthcare to everyone. The majority of Americans are not insured or have very high deductibles. Becoming ill or having an accident can financially cripple the average American, not the average Western-European. That comes with trade offs, obviously. And sure, the system can be mismanaged. But to argue that it’s somehow an inferior system is ludicrous.
Hoover kids making stuff up again.
Hey Atlas, you’re a radiologist, right?
Way outside your lane, Bozo
“Hospitals are going broke and closing; soon we’ll all be funneled to a few huge, centralized hospitals far away from our homes,” says a friend of mine in commercial real estate here in the US. All my friends and I (in states from NY, CT, MA, PA, to California) discuss increasing wait times and decreasing numbers of doctors (especially due to retirement of baby boom-aged doctors just as the boomers need them the most). We have varying experiences of today’s doctors…