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CANADIAN HEALTH CARE EARNS DISMAL FINISH IN INTERNATIONAL RANKING

Filed Under: Health, medical, News by genomega — 10 Comments
April 8, 2010

For the second time in less than two weeks, the Canadian public health care system has flunked an international comparison test, says the Health Consumer Powerhouse HCP, a research organization. Canada’s health care system ranks 23rd among 32 nations surveyed for quality, access and innovation.The second annual Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index measures patients’ rights and information, waiting times for treatment, outcomes, the range and reach of services provided and access to pharmaceuticals. Out of the 1,000 points available, the Index ranked countries in the following manner: The Netherlands was in the top spot with 824 points. Austria was second with 813 points. Luxembourg and Denmark took third and fourth place with 795 and 794 points, respectively. Germany came in fifth with 769 points. Canada placed 23rd with a score of just 549 points. According to researchers, wait times to see a doctor and receive treatment dragged the Canadian ranking toward the bottom: Patients were waiting between 3-15 months for treatment, when they could have received the same quality of care in Germany, France or the Netherlands in two weeks. While Canada is one of the highest per capita spenders on health care, patients don’t get much for their money. On the so-called “bang for the buck scale,” that measured health care results for the number of dollars spent, Canada ranks dead.

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Senate health-care bill would still leave millions uninsured

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January 2, 2010

Even as Democrats seek the biggest expansion of health coverage in decades, as many as 23 million people could still be without insurance by 2018, illustrating the complexity of achieving the long-held Democratic goal of universal health care.

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Johns Hopkins Medicine CEO: Obamacare Will Have "Catastrophic Effects" on Health-Care Safety-Net

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December 8, 2009

Both the House and Senate health-care reform bills call for a large increase in Medicaid—about 18 million more people will begin enrolling in Medicaid under the House bill starting in 2013, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Actuary Richard Foster estimates.
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A flood of new patients will be seeking health services, many of whom have never seen a doctor on more than a sporadic basis. Some will also have multiple and costly chronic conditions. And almost all of them will come from poor or disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Swine Flu / Terrorism Link?

Filed Under: Health, medical, Mexico by genomega — 6 Comments
April 26, 2009

The sudden outbreak of this new instance of swine flu smacks of bio terrorism. Do you think this swine flu is a biological weapon?

My specialty in the U.S. Air Force was Nuclear, Biological and Chemical warfare (weapon) defense. Our enemies can take and engineer diseases and release them in unsuspecting populated areas to wreak death and destruction. While the United States works on developing smart bombs that are smaller and more precise and limit collateral damage it is an undeniable fact that those who would do us harm are seeking to develop and obtain weapons that kill as many people as quickly and as easily as possible.

And, in that endeavor, they are succeeding.

Suddenly, the H1N1 swine flu appears in both Mexico City and New York City (two of the most populated cities in the world), far from swine. This virus strain is reportedly unlike any other disease, and contains strains of human flu, bird/avian flu, and swine flu. It’s apparently spreading from human to human (the bird flu never achieved that, only from birds to human). It’s a lethal disease. There is no vaccine for this.

This is scary stuff and we need to pay attention to what happens next.

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