Re: Productivity - Norway leads the table.

MooseFET wrote:


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Overall, people actually tend to live longer lives in Europe.

Any links? But you may be right, many people in the US have a problem
with obesity and lack of exercise.



http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9053-2/index1.html


Quote "They developed specific standards, or quality indicators, ...". Hmm, pretty vague here. For me, outcome is more important. For example if someone gets cancer, what the survival rate is.


http://www.who.int/whr/2000/media_centre/press_release/en/index.html


I was hoping to find a list of average life expectancies by country but I am sure it exists somewhere ;-)



So, what's your life expectancy in the USA if you get seriously sick and don't have a private medical insurance policy ?
That's something like 25% of the US population.

The serioulsy sick are always treated, whether they are covered or not.
It's the law and hospitals stick to that law.


Hospitals skirt the law a lot:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5298034


Yes, that story went around the nation. It does happen, once even in our neck of the woods, but it's not that widespread.



Also, I gather that your popular HMO policies restrict the treatment available to you.

Mine does not.


Read the fine print. I have never seen one that didn'tplace some sort
of limitations on care. Often it is int heform of extra delays.


Sure, there will always be limits or a system will be abused. But looking around the neighborhood (we care a lot for sick or disabled folks) I must say that care is pretty good. Just yesterday a friend who was diganosed with cancer was pushed to start (expensive) treatment right now, by their HMO.

When friends told us that their HMO paid the full tab for an in-vitro fertilization I could not believe it at first. This stuff is really expensive. The proof showed up two weeks ago in the form of two tiny and seemingly always hungry girls.



In fact, I know people insured with my HMO (Kaiser) that
got PET scans authorized within the hour after finding a speck of
cancer. The stories I've heard from European cancer patients paint a
very different picture.


--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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