If you’re not rich and you get sick, in which industrialized country are you likely to get the best treatment?
The conventional answer to this question has been: anywhere but the United States. With its many uninsured citizens and its relatively low life expectancy, the United States has been relegated to the bottom of international health scorecards. But, a prominent researcher, Samuel H. Preston, has taken a closer look at the growing body of international data, and he finds no evidence that America’s health care system is to blame for the longevity gap between it and other industrialized countries. In fact, he concludes, the American system in many ways provides superior treatment even when uninsured Americans are included in the analysis.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/22tier.htmlI realize this is coming from a biased news source and many will discount it out of hand ;)
so here's a link to the paper itself.
http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=psc_working_papersAs always, take this with a grain of salt:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7915http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118972683557627104.html
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