America’s Loathsome Right
Posted on | August 18, 2009 | 3 Comments
David Colquhoun quotes Simon Hoggart’s recent line in the Guardian……
There are few tribes more loathsome than the American right.
….and then proceeds to lay into the sickening and toxic lies currently being peddled by much of the US media, large tracts of corporate America, and hoards of repulsive bloggers and commentators (most of them ‘god-loving’, no doubt) against Obama’s proposals for healthcare reforms (not forgetting the occasional odious Conservative MEP and Telegraph hack).
David offers up a very interesting set of figures:
Health spending as a share of GDP
US 16% UK 8.4%Public spending on healthcare (% of total spending on healthcare)
US 45% UK 82%Health spending per head
US $7,290 UK $2,992Practising physicians (per 1,000 people)
US 2.4 UK 2.5Nurses (per 1,000 people)
US 10.6 UK 10.0Acute care hospital beds (per 1,000 people)
US 2.7 UK 2.6Life expectancy
US 78 UK 80Infant mortality (per 1,000 live births)
US 6.7 UK 4.8
I wonder where all that wasted money being spent by Americans on their private healthcare is going? It’s almost as if the answer is in the question, isn’t it?
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August 18th, 2009 @ 8:58 pm
How about this piece on public funded healthcare systems being staffed by terrorists.
http://www.joecar.demon.co.uk/2009/08/universal-healthcare-is-terrorist.html
August 24th, 2009 @ 12:13 am
John, that really doesn’t prove anything does it?
America could have the best healthcare system in the world, but given the state of the national diet, is it really surprising that their mortality rates are higher? (Even if you’ve not used the latest figures: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/19/AR2009081904131.html)
How about looking at cancer survival rates?
August 30th, 2009 @ 10:12 am
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