Sunday, May 2, 2010
We have rationed health care now.
Health/medical care in the USA is rationed now. People that can afford medical care can get it. Those that can't often have to go without. Money buys the best of care. Lack of money often means premature death. Studies conducted by Harvard University show that 45,000 Americans die each year because they don't have the money to acquire necessary care. That's a form of rationing, isn't it? And what about the private insurers? They decide whether or not to pay for a treatment. In a sense, they operate death panels. They decide who lives or dies, who gets treatment and who doesn't. Often in an arbitrary manner. --Jim Broede
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Another study by Dr. Richard Kronick, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and former senior adviser to President Clinton, crunched the numbers from 640,000 health surveys. The Harvard researchers looked at about 9,000 health surveys, in which about only 350 of the respondents had died. That's a small sample, with a huge error margin.
Kronick came up with a very small increased risk of death for the uninsured, with a very small margin of error.
The Harvard surveys used give us only a picture of a brief moment in time. As follow ups to the surveys are rare, someone who was uninsured at the time of the survey may well obtain insurance later, but that same person who dies 10 years later with insurance will still be counted as the death of an “uninsured”. Obviously, the opposite is also true.
As they say, never let the facts stand in the way of a darn good opinion.
Yes, facts are not always facts just because they are called facts. Often it's no more than speculation. --Jim
As is the 45,000 figure, apparently.
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