Health Care Quality In US Better Then Europe - For Now

The progressive agenda on health care, ObamaCare, is to be like Europe and Canada, wait in line for the elites in make the decision whether you live or die, ObamaCare Death Panels. If they decide you are not worth the time and money to keep you alive, they will assign you to procedures that have huge waiting times as this will ensure you will not make it into any kind of care that will help you survive.

At the same time they might decide that there is no hope for you at all, using a consensus sheet that predicts out comes of certain deceases, and deny any kind of treatment what so ever and thereby ensure your demise.

This, according to the progressives, makes sense, why spend money on people that will not be productive members of a socialistic society where every person is needed to work hard to ensure the survival of those that are incapable of work, and at the same time, making sure the progressive socialist government that controls all aspects of the citizens lives retains power.

Mr Obama speech last week was proof he has every intention of driving the county into the European style of socialism nightmare. If you think this is a stretch, look around to see how many people are ready to accept huge debt and a substandard living standard as the new norm. Look what happened last November where the majority voted to accept the new norm. Why would they do this? Self destruction? Can it be so many citizens are ready to give up self control?

Are all these people just uninformed, mentally lazy or just ready to lay down preparing for nation wide financial suicide? Remember Jim Jones in Africa where 900 members of congregation that drank the coolaide and died just because Jones told them to? There is a difference between Jim Jones and ObamaCare death panels or even the promises of good health care for everyone, but not much.

Facts about America's Health Care Quality that the World Doesn't Know
January 24, 2013
Source: Scott W. Atlas, "Facts about America's Health Care Quality that the World Doesn't Know," Fox News, January 15, 2013.

An oft-cited rationale for the Affordable Care Act is that Americans have poor access to quality health care. In reality, a variety of other factors, such as disease and lifestyle, are the real reasons why
Americans have lower life expectancies despite our advanced medical technology, says Scott W. Atlas, the David and Joan Traitel senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

• Obesity is the epidemic linked to a greater risk of death from heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure and cancer.
• More than 33 percent of Americans are considered obese, compared to 17.1 percent of Western Europeans.
• Japan has a very low rate of obesity, only 3.4 percent, and also the greatest longevity.
• The United States also has a very high incidence of cigarette smoking, which negatively affects health outcomes.

Despite these burdens, American cancer patients survive at much higher rates that their European counterparts in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Indeed, for breast cancer, the mortality rate in Germany is 52 percent higher and in the United Kingdom it is 88 percent higher than in the United States. For prostate cancer, the mortality rates are even worse.
More Americans with heart disease receive medication or are operated on for their condition.

• Americans have twice as many bypass procedures and four times as many angioplasties when compared to 10 Western European nations (Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland).
• Evidence suggests that Americans actually benefit from this extra treatment, with a longer five-year survival rate than Canadians who have a nationalized health system.

The United States also has a lower death rate from strokes, most likely due to modern therapy that expanded in America far quicker than it did under nationalized insurance.

• Less than 50 percent of high blood pressure patients go untreated in the United States compared with the 66 percent to 75 percent that go untreated in Canada and Europe, respectively.
• The United States is much more effective at controlling blood pressure through its better hypertension treatment delivery.