Does the U.S. Have the World's Best Health Care System? Yes, If You're Talking About the Third World
A little more than a year ago, on the day after the GOP regained control of the House of Representatives, Speaker-to-be John Boehner said one of the first orders of business after he took charge would be the repeal of health care reform.
"I believe that the health care bill that was enacted by the current Congress will kill jobs in America, ruin the best health care system in the world, and bankrupt our country," Boehner said at a press conference. "That means we have to do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with common sense reforms to bring down the cost of health care."
Boehner is not the first nor the only Republican to try to make us believe that the U.S. has the world's best health care system and that we're bound to lose that distinction because of Obamacare. I've heard GOP candidates for president say the same thing in recent months, charging that we need to get rid of a President who clearly is trying to fix something that doesn't need fixing, something that isn't broken in the first place.
One in five U.S. adults takes medication for a mental disorder
By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times / For the Booster Shots blog
9:53 AM PST, November 16, 2011
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Twenty percent of all adults said they took at least one medication to treat a mental disorder. Among women, 25% said they took such medication and 20% said they were using an antidepressant.
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-mental-health-20111116,0,4660172,print.story
Our View: 'Concierge' medicine
shows value of quality
It makes sense to pay more up front if it will head off more expensive problems later.
Kagan, Thomas pressed to stay out of healthcare fight
By James Oliphant
Washington Bureau
9:28 AM PST, December 1, 2011
Letters to the editor, Dec. 1, 2011
Concierge medicine impractical, unjust
In view of the problems we're having with the cost and availability of health care in this country, ideas about the provision of that care are always welcome. However, the "concierge medicine" model presented on the front page of the Nov. 27 Maine Sunday Telegram has little to recommend it.
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