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--- Oregon researchers find Americans lack bang for health care buck
Very interesting : This is what I wrote about concerning the effects of pollution on our health: The point is, people need to be made aware of the advantages of good air and deep breathing and good mental and physical health via exercise in good air. If researchers and tv stations do more to promote this correlation, then drugs and oil industry might not be as important to promote. When the costs of ill health and treatment out weigh the savings from promoting this poison (oil and coal and industry pollution production without adequate monitoring or proactive reductions of exhausts) then maybe people will get the advantages. We are underminding our youth, and for millions of people ,our families and thus our own ability to compete in the world. People are suggesting now that the politicians who promote these industries , they pretend we need so much is actually undercutting our economic and phsyical and mental health by not looking at the overall effects of these policies So these politicians are actually anti American. Only when tv and news and researchers see more of the connections will anything be done. As it is now , the rich can move , but even when people want to do better for themselves in many places in the US , they might be doing more harm then good. (for example exercising or deep breathing in bad air) Even say we can get by without the drug companies , the air is often the only factor from keeping us healthy and competitive. Its that clear and simple "Sarah" news:0v2dnanP_LKVgy3dRVn-ug@rapidnet.com... > Oregon researchers find Americans lack bang for health care buck > May 17, 2004, AP > > http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D82K7A981.html > > > Amerians might pay a lot for health care, but in return they feel like $1 > million bucks. > > Not quite. > > A new study published by a pair of Oregon researchers found that Americans > are paying more and feeling worse than people in Europe and Canada. > > "We spend much more than any industrialized country on a per capita basis > and we get much less in return," said report co-author Dr. Bentson McFarland > of Oregon Health & Science University. "It's a terrible waste of resources > and, of course, it's inequitable." > > McFarland and Portland State University's Mark Kaplan, the lead author, > found that Americans spent $3,939 per capita on health care in 1997, > compared with Canadians who spent $2,187 per capita and residents of > European Union nations, who spent $1,773 per capita. > > The United States also outpaced other nations in health care spending as a > percentage of gross domestic product: We spend 13 percent of our GDP on > health care, compared with 9 percent in Canada and 8 percent in the European > Union. > > At the same time, Americans were far more likely to describe their own > health as "fair" or "poor" than were Canadians and Europeans across nearly > all age groups. Starting at age 30, Americans had a significantly higher > prevalence of poor self-rated health than their Canadian and European > counterparts; the disparity between health care spending and self-rated > health increased with age. > > The report, published in the June edition of the Journal of Epidemiology & > Public Health, follows Cover the Uninsured Week, a campaign to secure health > coverage for every American. > > An estimated 44 million Americans, including 8.5 million children and at > least 20 million working Americans, have no health insurance, according to > the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. > > About 511,000 Oregonians lack health insurance. > > The Oregon study is the first to conduct an international comparison of > self-reported health status, which McFarland said is a powerful predictor of > life expectancy. > > McFarland said his research shows the United States has an inequitable > health system, one in which poor people get "terrible or no health care." > > Another problem, he said, is that we spend our money foolishly. > > "We spend too many dollars on expensive procedures that have little or no > impact on overall health, and spend too few of our precious dollars on > preventive, public health-oriented interventions." > > > Read about the solution at: > http://www.kucinich.us/issues/#key01 > > > > > > > Related Discussion: Longevity and Health (1 posts) Goodlife membership for sale (1 posts) hmo (1 posts) easy phone dating - meet any girl you find on this dating/sex line 5425 (1 posts) Top Discussions From Our Archives The Greatest Vitamin in the World Lose Weight, Feel GREAT, Make Money!!! RxSolutions and Pacificare are Anti-Consumer Other Discussion Categories Diabetes Symptoms Health Care Policy Health Care Providers HMO Arthritis Symptoms
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