Port Tack
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CNN didn't link the Commonwealth study they cited... Typical for sloppy Leftist journalists who were liberal arts majors...
Anyway, I looked it up. Like virtually every other study I've seen it lists a lot of metrics that are socialist bullshit as to the quality of healthcare.
The study is here:
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/pu...022-scorecard-state-health-system-performance
It includes such non-healthcare system categories as "healthy lives" and "avoidable hospital use & cost." Those are not metrics that measure the system, but rather metrics of those using the system. You can't include as a factor in the quality of a healthcare system the individual stupidity of the users.
Then it includes the usual Socialist and Leftist bullshit that has NOTHING to do with the quality of care like:
Income disparity
Racial & Ethnic Equity
They tossed into this particular study "COVID 19" as a category. Another anomaly.
The only two that really count are "Accessibility and Affordability" (mostly but not entirely a measure of how socialized the system is btw) and "Prevention and Treatment."
Like other studies--virtually all of them-- the US comes out at the top, usually in the top three for the quality of care, while not doing as well on affordability and usually fairly well on accessibility when that is measured by things like wait times and not just Socialist measures of everybody having access.
So, the CNN report just regurgitates the same vomitous mass of nonsense that argues that somehow Socialized medicine is better.
Socialized medicine is far better than what we have in the USA.
#1 Denmark
The Danish universal health care system provides Danes with mostly free medical care and is predominantly financed through income tax. All permanent residents are entitled to a national health insurance card, and most examinations and treatments are free of charge.
Yes theirs would be considered socialized healthcare but that does not mean they are a socialist country, it just means it has far better healthcare than ours does. Having a few social programs to handle healthcare or retirement (like we do with social security) does not make us a socialized country, just a smarter one. The cost in Denmark for their program when taking into consideration it is part of you income tax is less than half of what Americans pay for healthcare. The same with at least a half dozen other countries with similar programs and far better rated healthcare systems. We just have a lot of fucking idiots like yourself that are afraid of the word socialized as though it might pertain to our form of govt when nothing could be further from the truth.
Why anyone bothers to argue simple fucking facts with assholes like you is a waste of time, google it moron, a thousand reputable links to the best healthcare in the world are available and none of them will rate the USA as even being in the mix.