Points to ponder
Aug. 27th, 2009 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithLinks to some information posted on Daily Kos.
First, Five Myths About Healthcare from Around the World, such as:
3. Foreign health care systems are inefficient, bloated bureaucracies.
Much less so than here. It may seem to Americans that U.S.-style free enterprise -- private-sector, for-profit health insurance -- is naturally the most cost-effective way to pay for health care. But in fact, all the other payment systems are more efficient than ours.
Numbers follow.
Then, some folks went and analyzed how a public option would affect every congressional district in the US.
First, Five Myths About Healthcare from Around the World, such as:
3. Foreign health care systems are inefficient, bloated bureaucracies.
Much less so than here. It may seem to Americans that U.S.-style free enterprise -- private-sector, for-profit health insurance -- is naturally the most cost-effective way to pay for health care. But in fact, all the other payment systems are more efficient than ours.
Numbers follow.
Then, some folks went and analyzed how a public option would affect every congressional district in the US.
