a combination of social security, Medicare, and the voting rights act all rolled into one.

Rec

Different criteria give vastly different outcomes:

American Public Health Association

WHO

These reports are from different years, but it's unlikely that France could be the world's best in 2000 and 3rd worst in the most recent survey.

The only consistency in all of them in that the US is dead last.

IMO, we could bring the for profit ripoff 'health care' system to the Supreme Court and have it declared unconstitutional. We need to get rid of the profit-loving middlemen.

Any big Legal groups, care to give this a try?

to extort three trillion dollars from working people while parcelling out the world's worst healthcare to most of us (40 million do without) and their propaganda arm convinces former dems that it's great. Sounds like a well oiled machine to me.

I exaggerate but, not by much. A brand new CNA in my area starts at $8.50/hour and is only a dime per year of experience.

As mandated health insurance programs go, I'm sure we're the best out there.

U.S.A. ... U.S.A. ... U.S.A.!!!

Insurance is not health care, it is a gatekeeper designed to deny healthcare to maximize profits. Our "system" uses insurance to reduce actual health care received, so if you think about it, when they measure health care outcomes ours coming last is an excellent metric to prove our system is the best at what it does!

If we had a health care system instead, with the money we spend we would likely have the best. Perhaps someday we will have politicians working on health care rather than an insurance racket devised by the Heritage Foundation to make people rich.

A fella' can dream can't he?

health care is way down the list of objectives of our system, so comparing it to countries where care is the main goal is unfair.

the ideology, agenda, and whims of right-wing interests, ala Koch. Another decade or two of having the gipper's vision of America crammed down the throats of the masses will leave a mostly wrecked infrastructure and society imo.

Healthcare spending is $1,703 per capita in South Korea in 2012 according to World Bank

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PCAP

Red States!

'for profit' health care system & 'for profit' prisons, and 'for profit' schools.

and unfortunately it's been too many times lately, the first thing the nurses and CNAs do when she gets assigned a room, before they even take her vital signs, is to examine and photograph any bruises, bedsores, or other blemishes on her body. They've freely admitted to me that this is urgent hospital policy, that the number one priority is to prevent legal liability. The hospital doesn't want to be sued with claims the hospital stay was responsible. They won't let my mother get out of bed to use the commode because they're afraid of legal liability if she falls, although immobility is unhealthy. They put her on a catheter even knowing that this causes urinary tract infections because they are short-handed at all times in today's hospital setting and can't afford the time to clean her several times a day.

we have made are not sufficient enough AND the Republicans would prefer to take this
away from you.