o'scamcare - Inconvenient Truths: 10 Facts about American Health Care

reposted from http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649 (National Center for Policy Analysis, NCPA)
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 by Scott Atlas

Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers and academics alike are beating the drum for a far larger government rôle in health care. Much of the public assumes their arguments are sound because the calls for change are so ubiquitous and the topic so complex. However, before turning to government as the solution, some unheralded facts about America's health care system should be considered.

Fact No. 1: Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.[1] Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States, and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the U.K. and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.

Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.[2] Breast cancer mortality is 9 percent higher, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher and colon cancer mortality among men is about 10 percent higher than in the United States.

Fact No. 3: Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.[3] Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit are taking statins, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons and 17 percent of Italians receive them.

Fact No. 4: Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.[4] Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate and colon cancer:

Nine of 10 middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to less than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).
Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a pap smear, compared to less than 90 percent of Canadians.
More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a PSA test, compared to less than 1 in 6 Canadians (16 percent).
Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with less than 1 in 20 Canadians (5 percent).

Fact No. 5: Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report "excellent" health compared to Canadian seniors (11.7 percent versus 5.8 percent). Conversely, white Canadian young adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower income Americans to describe their health as "fair or poor."[5]

Fact No. 6: Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the U.K. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long - sometimes more than a year - to see a specialist, to have elective surgery like hip replacements or to get radiation treatment for cancer.[6] All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada.[7] In England, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.[8]

Fact No. 7: People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and British adults say their health system needs either "fundamental change" or "complete rebuilding."[9]

Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the "health care system," more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared to only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent).[10]

Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K. Maligned as a waste by economists and policymakers naïve to actual medical practice, an overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identified computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade.[11] [See the table.] The United States has 34 CT scanners per million Americans, compared to 12 in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has nearly 27 MRI machines per million compared to about 6 per million in Canada and Britain.[12]

Fact No. 10: Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.[13] The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other single developed country.[14] Since the mid-1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to American residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined.[15] In only five of the past 34 years did a scientist living in America not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.[16] [See the table.]

Conclusion. Despite serious challenges, such as escalating costs and the uninsured, the U.S. health care system compares favorably to those in other developed countries.

[The writer,] Scott W. Atlas, M.D., is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at the Stanford University Medical Center . A version of this article appeared previously in the February 18, 2009, Washington Times.

[1] Concord Working Group, "Cancer survival in five continents: a worldwide population-based study,.S. abe at responsible for theountries, in s chnologies, " Lancet Oncology, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 2008, pages 730 - 756; Arduino Verdecchia et al., "Recent Cancer Survival in Europe: A 2000-02 Period Analysis of EUROCARE-4 Data," Lancet Oncology, Vol. 8, No. 9, September 2007, pages 784 - 796.

[2] U.S. Cancer Statistics, National Program of Cancer Registries, U.S. Centers for Disease Control; Canadian Cancer Society/National Cancer Institute of Canada; also see June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S.," National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 13429, September 2007. Available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w13429.

[3] Oliver Schoffski (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), "Diffusion of Medicines in Europe," European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, 2002. Available at http://www.amchampc.org/showFile.asp?FID=126. See also Michael Tanner, "The Grass is Not Always Greener: A Look at National Health Care Systems around the World," Cato Institute, Policy Analysis No. 613, March 18, 2008. Available at http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9272.

[4] June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S."

[5] Ibid.

[6] Nadeem Esmail, Michael A. Walker with Margaret Bank, "Waiting Your Turn, (17th edition) Hospital Waiting Lists In Canada," Fraser Institute, Critical Issues Bulletin 2007, Studies in Health Care Policy, August 2008; Nadeem Esmail and Dominika Wrona "Medical Technology in Canada," Fraser Institute, August 21, 2008 ; Sharon Willcox et al., "Measuring and Reducing Waiting Times: A Cross-National Comparison Of Strategies," Health Affairs, Vol. 26, No. 4, July/August 2007, pages 1,078-87; June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S."; M.V. Williams et al., "Radiotherapy Dose Fractionation, Access and Waiting Times in the Countries of the U.K.. in 2005," Royal College of Radiologists, Clinical Oncology, Vol. 19, No. 5, June 2007, pages 273-286.

[7] Nadeem Esmail and Michael A. Walker with Margaret Bank, "Waiting Your Turn 17th Edition: Hospital Waiting Lists In Canada 2007."

[8] "Hospital Waiting Times and List Statistics," Department of Health, England. Available at http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics/Performancedataandstatistics/HospitalWaitingTimesandListStatistics/index.htm?IdcService=GET_FILE&dID=186979&Rendition=Web.

[9] Cathy Schoen et al., "Toward Higher-Performance Health Systems: Adults' Health Care Experiences In Seven Countries, 2007," Health Affairs, Web Exclusive, Vol. 26, No. 6, October 31, 2007, pages w717-w734. Available at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/26/6/w717.

[10] June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S."

[11] Victor R. Fuchs and Harold C. Sox Jr., "Physicians' Views of the Relative Importance of 30 Medical Innovations," Health Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 5, September /October 2001, pages 30-42. Available at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/20/5/30.pdf.

[12] OECD Health Data 2008, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Available at http://www.oecd.org/document/30/0,3343,en_2649_34631_12968734_1_1_1_37407,00.html.

[13] "The U.S. Health Care System as an Engine of Innovation," Economic Report of the President (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2004), 108th Congress, 2nd Session H. Doc. 108-145, February 2004, Chapter 10, pages 190-193, available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy05/pdf/2004_erp.pdf; Tyler Cowen, New York Times, Oct. 5, 2006; Tom Coburn, Joseph Antos and Grace-Marie Turner, "Competition: A Prescription for Health Care Transformation," Heritage Foundation, Lecture No. 1030, April 2007; Thomas Boehm, "How can we explain the American dominance in biomedical research and development?" Journal of Medical Marketing, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2005, pages 158-66, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, July 2002. Available at http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/erp/page/8649/download/47455/8649_ERP.pdf .

[14] Nicholas D. Kristof, "Franklin Delano Obama," New York Times, February 28, 2009. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/opinion/01Kristof.html.

[15] The Nobel Prize Internet Archive. Available at http://almaz.com/nobel/medicine/medicine.html.

[16] "The U.S. Health Care System as an Engine of Innovation," 2004 Economic Report of the President.

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o'bamanation - For Those of You Who Need A Picture

From: hh Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

photos source: Papa Mike's blog  at http://www.papamiket.com/?p=23872

For Those Who Need A Picture

 

The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - you’ve had 234 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Social Security was established in 1935 - you’ve had 74 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - you’ve had 71 years to get it right; it’s broke.

The “War on Poverty” started in 1964 - you’ve had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor”; it hasn’t worked and our entire country is broke.

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - you’ve had 44 years to get it right; they’re both broke.

Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you’ve had 39 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the “Stimulus”, the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009…. none show any signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new source: the American taxpayer.

And finally, to set a new record:

“Cash for Clunkers” was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress’ generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments.

So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that “services” you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?

20% of our entire economy?

With all due respect,

Are you crazy?

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o'cap & tax - Obama Raises Taxes On All Americans?

From: CDFE Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 

The Carbon Lie Is Being Used To Raise Everyone's Taxes

To give cover for the Obama "Energy Tax", a White House Global Warming Report and the EPA are Hiding New Research on Global Cooling and Are Still Blaming Carbon Dioxide for Global Warming.

WITHOUT CARBON DIOXIDE TO BLAME THE GOVERNMENT TAX INCREASE OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS ON ALL AMERICANS FLIPPING ON A LIGHT SWITCH IS NOT NEEDED AND EVEN THE EPA KNOWS THE REPORT IS A LIE.

Turning on the Light = Cap and Trade = $3,200/year Tax Increase

Has OBAMA broken his pledge when he said "...No family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase... NOT ANY OF YOUR TAXES."

The Obama administration's global warming report contains no new research and is scaring the public with misinformation using the grimmest, most urgent language on global warming ever to come out of any White House. Rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, deeper droughts, and heavier downpours - blaming carbon for global warming's alleged serious effects and lying to the country to collect the "Energy Tax" passed by the House before going on vacation.

But was the report complete? Did it have all the relevant data? NO!  Americans Must Know The Truth About Global Cooling! We have launched plans for a multi-million dollar TV and online media campaign to reach millions before the Senate Votes to raise taxes with the new "Energy Tax" on all Americans but we need your financial help.

The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE) a non-profit 501(c)(3) non-partisan education and research organization is promoting the creation and distribution of Our Media Campaign "The Great Carbon Energy Tax". This free enterprise project is focused on getting all the Tax and Energy information to Americans that the Government and lobbyists seek to hide and ignore.

Getting to the Truth About Global Warming

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin that questioned the science behind global warming.

The report details how regulating gases like carbon dioxide WILL NOT reduce global warming. Carlin's report states that the information the EPA is using is out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.

Inhofe said "He (Carlin) came out with the truth. They don't want the truth at the EPA," he's ordered an investigation. "We're going to expose it."

CARBON FACT: CO2 DOES NOT Cause Global Warming!

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) Data:  The Truth For seven and a half years, is that global temperatures have been falling rapidly. The UN IPCC's predicted warming path (pink region) bears no relation to the global cooling data that the IPCC has observed in the 21st century to date. Source: SPPI global temperature index.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Is Food For Plants not "Air Pollutant"

CO2 is not an "air pollutant," but rather food for plants and marine life. And its atmospheric levels are controlled by temperature and other biological/chemical variables -- not the other way around (Just as: Lung Cancer does not cause smoking). But most of all, a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist. 

Carbon Fact: The "Energy Bill" Will Not Reduce Global Warming?

The graphs below show the effect of spending billions of dollars on the Waxman/Markey bill will have on Global Temperature and Sea Levels.

Waxman/Markey Climate Bill Will Scarcely Affect Temperatures

Temperature change predicted by the UN, and (dotted line) adjusted to reflect the negligible impact of the Waxman/Markey Climate Bill, which might cut temperatures by 0.2-0.02 F by 2100, at a cost of $18 trillion. Source: Chip Knappenberger: cost estimates $180 bn/year from the White House.

Carbon Fact: The "Energy Bill" Will Not Reduce Sea Levels?

The Waxman/Markey Climate Bill will scarcely affect sea level

Sea-level change predicted by the UN, and (dotted line) adjusted to reflect the negligible impact of the Waxman/Markey Climate Bill, which might cut sea-level by less than half an in by 2100, at a cost of $18 trillion. Source: Chip Knappenberger: cost estimates $180 bn/year from the White House.

Help Get All The Relevant Data to Taxpayers?  Americans Must Know The Truth About Global Cooling! 

Did you know that since Barack Obama was elected President four people make a donation to an anti-free enterprise group every minute?  That's almost a TWO MILLION contributions aimed at you - and your economic rights every year! With Obama in the White House and anti-free enterprise socialists in control of key committees in Congress, the socialists are out for blood.

The way of life you save may be your own.
Sincerely, Ron Arnold, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, http://www.cdfe.com/

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We at the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise have launched this new nationwide campaign to rally economic freedom loving Americans behind an effort to protect our constitutional rights.

This is important.  Even if you don't wish to donate or are undecided about some economy questions, please answer our economic knowledge survey.   Please fill it out by selecting here.

Select Here NOW I urgently need you to fill out the EMERGENCY ECONOMIC SURVEY.  (No donation required)

We need your urgent help at CDFE.  Even smaller donations are going to help. Any amount - $1000, $500, $250, or even $100 will help us with our Media Campaign and fight the battle to inform the American people about the TRUTH. It's time we stood up and said enough is enough! Please join us with your CDFE donation TODAY. Thank you. We need your financial help NOW to produce a TV and online media campaign to reach millions of Americans. The Center does not seek or accept government funds. Tax deductible Contributions to the Center are the only way we can create and distribute critical tax and energy information to Americans with a Media Campaign. Donate To Our Media Campaign "The Great Carbon Energy Tax"

The survey asks simply, yes or no, if you are aware of the facts listed in the following 12 questions: source: the CDFE Economic Survey at https://secure.conservativedonations.com/cdfe_survey/?a=3122

QUESTION 1:  Did you know that the Obama government owns 72.5% of GM and the bondholders just 10% and that cost of the government takeover socializing GM is at least $70 billion?

QUESTION 2:  Were you aware Obama diverted funds from the $700 Billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to illegally takeover General Motors instead of buying troubled assets from
"financial institutions"

QUESTION 3:  Were you aware that Only 6% or $47,770,000,000 of the $787,000,000,000 Stimulus has
actually been spent?

QUESTION 4:  Did you know that under Obama 14.5 million people are out of work with an unemployment rate at 9.4% the highest since the Great Depression?

QUESTION 5:  Were you aware that according to Biden, Obama "guessed wrong" predicting unemployment would remain at 8 percent or below through 2009 if an economic stimulus plan won congressional approval?

QUESTION 6:  Did you know that Obama will double consumer energy costs perpetuating The Great Carbon Lie - that CO2 causes global warming – as the world gets colder not warmer despite the rise in CO2 levels?

QUESTION 7:  Were you aware that Obama's $646 Billion Cap-And-Trade Spending Bill has a New CO2 Green Tax to raise $80 Billion a year selling carbon credits?

QUESTION 8:  Did you know that under Obama each American family's national debt rose 12% and your family's share of the government debt is now over half a million dollars. A record $546,668, to be exact?

QUESTION 9:  Did you know Obama lied and plans to keep Gitmo open and spend $80 million moving detainees to Afghanistan?

QUESTION 10:  Did you know that Obama is raising the death tax on family farms and small businesses to
raise $60 billion in taxes?

QUESTION 11:  Were you aware that Obama borrows 50 cents of every budget dollar he spends from China?

QUESTION 12:  Did you know that Obama Heath Care adds $1 trillion to the national debt and Obama will create $600 Billion in new taxes on Medicare $344 Billion, soda $112 Billion, alcohol $61 Billon and employer-provided health care $200 Billion?

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o'pig-in-a-poke's Pandora's Box - Negroes, Jews, the unfit & unwanted...beware of o'nocchio & his not so merry band of henchmen

o'pig-in-a-poke's Pandora's Box - Negroes, Jews, the unfit & unwanted...beware of o'nocchio & his not so merry band of henchmen

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire

When they came for the Juden, they didn't discriminate as to who was a politician, commoner, businessman, religious leader, teacher, weak or strong, young or old ...all were gassed and burned. 

The 1st & 2nd Amendments and Life are interdependent.  Destroy one you destroy all. ~ rfh

video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8irLivzSyNc

video source: http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2009/08/change.html

So much for o'nocchio's "you won't be denied coverage" -- factual statitistics:

PAYER             DENIALS    DENIED RECORDS  PERCENT OF CLAIM

                                                                                     UNITS DENIED

AETNA                637,239          43,317                               6 %

ANTHEM             250,070          11,546                               5 %

CIGNA                 263,728            9,060                               3 %

COVENTRY          20,487               590                               2 %

HEALTH NET         4,975               195                                3 %

HUMANA           143,026            4,142                                2 %

MEDICARE    6,938,431        475,644                               6 %

UHC                 1,127,691           30,177                               2 %

DATE:  03/01/09  SOURCE: NHSX

(July 2009) Michael Cannon Director of Health Policy Studies at the CATO Institute explains the Bureaucracy Maze we'd have to navigate just to see a doctor with Govt Healthcare Insurance (which will eliminate half of current insurance providers) Massachusetts To Discriminate against 30,000 LEGAL (not Illegal) immigrants; by the state budget eliminating their coverage (So much for "Universal Healthcare") Canada & UK Universal Healthcare, Dr. Lotteries! Come On, Baby needs a New Hip!~

Eugenics Originated in America 1899, & California 1909, Inspiring Nazi Germany.   Eugenics is Espoused by John Holdren [o'who?'s] 'Science Czar' in a 1977 book; claiming necisitous Forced Abortion & Forced Sterilization to "stem population growth", & Ruth Bater Ginsberg 'Supreme Court Justice' "Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in population that we don't want too many of."

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America's Final Solution • LifeNews  ...today's Holocaust: Casualties, one Cross = 50,000 or less

Equating abortion with genocide is well founded.

Many are unaware of Planned Parenthood founder Sanger's "Negro Project," "the eugenic plan to limit or exterminate — the black race and others "unfit to reproduce." [..to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation [in camps] to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring." [..by force if necessary.]   "..during 1933 in Sanger's The Birth Control Review (immediate predecessor to the Planned Parenthood Review) an article by Ernst Rudin (1874-1952) was published entitled, "Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need." Rudin was Adolph Hitler's director of genetic sterilization and a founder of the Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene. (Various references in Grand Illusions) History documents that Sanger supported the Nazi Party philosophies." [  Planned Parenthood's Nazi roots  ] ; and -eugenical race-purification by prevention of births to parents from 'inferior' blood stocks ('birth control societies'). "Before the Auschwitz death camp became a household word, these British-American-European groups called openly for the elimination of the 'unfit' by means including force and violence." ** 

"...my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews." (Adolf Hitler, 1922 )

 "The first thing I'd do, as president, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." (Obama, 2007 ?)

"I could smell the babies burning."  (Tiller's crematorium staff, 1993 $)

[ Negroes, Jews, the unfit & unwanted...beware ] 

source: http://www.773.com

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air pelosi, o'care, death panels - What Possibly Could Go Wrong?

From: baja Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009

 Let me get this straight.
We're going to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, signed by a president that also hasn't read it, and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't  pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke.

What possibly could go wrong?

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