From a report representing top CEO's (who aren't liberally biased last time I checked):

"...The United States is 23 points behind five leading economic competitors: Canada, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and France. The five nations cover all their citizens, and though their systems differ, in each country the government plays a much larger role than in the U.S.

The cost-benefit disparity is even wider — 46 points — when the U.S. is compared with emerging competitors: China, Brazil and India..."

 

by Tom Hanc on 12/17/2009 01:35:54 PM EST

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I'm irish and we have an incoherent public/private collage of health care, its a great idea but has been poorly managed and billions wasted , the system itself is probably best explained on wikipedia under "health care in the republic of ireland" our problem is not with insurance but the hospital quality , apart from some daft syatem we have called "risk equalisation" where companies with a younger healthier customer base have to pay compensation to ones with older "higher risk" customers , its a rule which forced one company out of our market (bupa) because they would have to pay millions to the (state run) vhi , its a great example of how stupidity can ruin everything

by PinkEyeTowlie on 12/18/2009 06:17:37 AM EST

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