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Infomaniac: WeBlog
Monday, October 18, 2004
Better in America?
I was struck by a statement of President Bush's in the last debate, about America's health care system. From the transcript: "And just look at other countries that have tried to have federally controlled health care. They have poor-quality health care. Our health-care system is the envy of the world because we believe in making sure that the decisions are made by doctors and patients, not by officials in the nation's capital."
Is that really true? Not according to Money and Medicine, a report in The Newark Star-Ledger last weekend (and some other newspapers over this past weekend). It's based on a book by two award-winning journalists: Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine, a book by Donald Bartett and James Steele. A report based on the book is also on Time Magazine's Website but you must subscribe to read it here ($4.95 for a short subscription). According to Bartlett and Steele,
(Item changed to add the link to the Star-Ledger report online.) (Spelling of Donald Barlett corrected 10/22. Thanks to alert reader.) Also, an interesting report from the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis: Why do Americans work so much more than Europeans? This says that Americans work 50 percent more time than workers in Germany, France, and Italy. posted by liz at 10:22 AM 
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