https://tribune.com.pk/story/2515799/canadian-man-dies-from-aortic-aneurysm-after-healthcare-delays
One of the stock responses from the Dan's of the world is that people die from for profit health insurance companies refusing treatment, and that state run healthcare systems will solve this problem. Well, maybe the intentional choice of the Canadian government to not have enough medical equipment available to treat someone in an ER who had a deadly condition, is just as bad.
"The test that could have saved his life requires a CT scan. Canada has fewer than one third as many CT scanners per capita as the United States. It takes Canadian hospitals a median of seven hours to perform an inpatient CT scan after one has been ordered, over three times as long as in a study on a US hospital. We heard a lot recently that denying payment on a health insurance claim is morally equivalent to murder. But rationing is its own form of ongoing denial, a scarcity mindset that affects all patient care as providers have to contemplate who is most deserving of their limited public resource. In an American emergency room, you are more likely to get unnecessary tests, be billed for time with ludicrously expensive equipment, and then fight with your insurance company over the bill. But the question is usually one of payment, rather than if the service can be supplied at all. Under a public system, the decision to ration care was made in advance as a matter of economic planning, but nobody in charge ever becomes tainted with moral responsibility for having "denied" an individual."
One of Dan's big "gotcha" links use the metric of life expectancy/health care expenditure per person to "prove" that the US healthcare system is flawed. The following links look at the data on this issue from a few different angles and demonstrate that this metric is a horribly flawed way to measure this particular thing.
https://x.com/vincentgeloso/status/1866848967272902907?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
https://x.com/jeremykauffman/status/1866661748566266294?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/grading-the-worlds-shortest-manifesto
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1866752366986530985?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
2 comments:
The same flaws occurred in studies purporting to demonize infant mortality rates in the US, which, even with our horrific pro-abortion policies, still regards infants and their morality different than other countries alleged to have better outcomes.
To the Dans of the world, it's the narrative which matters most and damn the consequences.
The Narrative is king for people like Dan. That innocent people might suffer or die to further the goals of the left is simply a cost of doing business.
I've needed a CT scan in a couple of different ER's, and gotten them within hours, not days or weeks. If I hadn't gotten the needed tests quickly, I'd have been able to schedule one the next day through my primary.
No one is suggesting that the US healthcare system is perfect. What is being suggested is the measuring outcomes using stupid metrics and tilting the scale to ignore the documented failings of government run healthcare systems isn't helping the discussion.
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