There is so much talk of how wonderful the United States health care is and how we dare not change anything.
The following information is taken from the World Health Organization of the UN for the last year available, (2006). We can learn something from other countries. A lot are having much better results than we are.
What I have found
· 33 Countries have higher Life Expectancy
· 39 Countries have lower Infant Mortality Rates
· 44 Countries have lower adult mortality (15 to 60)
· 192 Countries spend a lower % of GDP on health care.
· Japan, Australia, Sweden, Spain, Israel, Austria, Norway all have higher life expectancy, about ½ our infant mortality rate, and they spend a much smaller % of their GDP on health care, (some spend 50% of what we spend as a % of GDP). Maybe we could learn something.*
Please take a minute to click thru to the excel spreadsheets For formatting reasons they need to be hosted at a different site. But I think that you will find the full information very interesting.
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