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The real measure is, if you're sick, in which country are you most likely to
get well? The U.S. tops that list.
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An interestingly formulated claim, but where is it documented? "
Nowhere because it simply is not true. I agree with your disagreement. Let's put it this way, there was a time when billionaires came to the US for treatment but that is long past. The good countries, regardless of their position in the socialized medicine spectrum, have surpassed US facilities by quite a bit.
Most that is. We still got the Mayo clinic, but who all really goes there ? In general, if you are traveling abroad in the US and get into a car wreck, maybe you should fly home... or maybe not.
It varies. Consistency is not consistent. They KILL like 250,000 people a year here, and tat is the AMA's pown figure, spmething like 210,000 or something like that. this is mediacle mistakes folks, not people getting dragged in who were cut in half and shit. Not all with walking ebola. MISTAKES, wrong dosages, drugs, procedures.
Take that figure of 200,000 for round numbers and figure out where is acceptable. With 200,000, if there are 2,000,000 people in the hospital at any given ti e that is 10 %. Is there 20,000,000 in the hospital at any given time ? That would be 1 %. More to your liking ? That tou gotr in for any reason there is a one in a hundred chance you never get out ?
Prison is better.
There are all kinds of isconceptions. One of the biggest is that medical science has increased life expectancy. It has not. Less people get shot, electrocuted, fall off roofs or bridges, fall into cement mixers or volcanos and shit like that. Look at the old scientists and shit born in the 1700s, lived to be 82, 86, 91.
Infant mortality also slews the life expectancy, if you go by the average. Died at ZERO years old, that doesn't help up the number now does it ?
That is the pitfall of statistics, and used quite well by spin doctors. Like ther eis a robbery every ten seconds. Yeah, so is someone hit by lightning wearing only a bra and panties smoking an alligator. There are seven billion people on this planet, so a couple million doesn't mean shit. Really.
But as to the subject, I agree, acctually GETTING the disease is probably more beneficial to one's immune system, the only pitfall in some cases is of course the possibility of death. Your call. your immune system.
There are always things that cannot be anticipated. A few years ago I got really sick due to exposure to mold. Damnear kilttme. Seriously. Walking around like I was 100 years old and not in good shape for 100 either.
Mold exposure has such a varied symptom set that doctors usually miss it, and they did with me. My people and I found it in the environment. Under my bed. threw out the bed (which I got used, NEVER again) and I got better.
Doctors, researchers, all of them, guess what. They are not infallible. It is bad enough that in the US half of them are crooked or at least have an adenda which supports the position of their funders, but they also ake mistakes. Real mistakes are caught by peer review and people trying to repeat the experiments, but not always. If you fund a lab to prove your new drug cures (or treats) something, are you going to fund another labe to disprove it ?
What's more, there is NO PROOF whatsoever that any vaccine works because that would require a double blind study in which half the participants are given a placebo and exposed to a disease. this is considered unethical, how convenient for the vaccine akers eh ?
But we pretty much know how vaccines work and can trust them to some extent.. Mainly because if too many people die they will not sell as much of the vaccine.
You people in other places in the world will never understand how much the more intelligent among us distrusts this establishment here. They have proven themselves to be untrustworthy, and you don't get it on the news. WE KNOW, WE WERE HERE and saw the lies they told later.
This is what people do not understand about USians. And you never will unless you live it. Now I know how people in Russia felt back when the Soviets were in power.
Damn shame ain't it ? Freest country in the world, but you ned a license to take a shit.
Enough rant. Later.