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Since public health care is apparently going to be at the top of President Obama's agenda for the next 100 days, and the potential swine flu pandemic sort of puts it there anyway, I thought it might deserve its own thread.
For starters, here's Nicholas Kristof today on NY Times: IMO he gives a pretty good overview of the situation in the US, with regards to public health and the pandemic. He includes a nod to Dubya, who increased American preparedness for flu pandemics significantly, but argues that the main reason for the underperfomance of the US health care system is overinvestment in expensive and often unnecessary diagnostic systems such as CAT scans, and underinvestment in preventative and public health measures.
Being a columnist, he has his politics, of course, but in this case he steers nicely clear of proposing any canned solutions.
[ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/opinion/03kristof.html?ref=opinion ]
So, folks -- what's the health care system like where you're from, what works, what doesn't, and what improvements can you think of? Is there something you think that you could successfully adopt from some other model, or something you think works so well in your system that other countries might want to copy it?
For starters, here's Nicholas Kristof today on NY Times: IMO he gives a pretty good overview of the situation in the US, with regards to public health and the pandemic. He includes a nod to Dubya, who increased American preparedness for flu pandemics significantly, but argues that the main reason for the underperfomance of the US health care system is overinvestment in expensive and often unnecessary diagnostic systems such as CAT scans, and underinvestment in preventative and public health measures.
Being a columnist, he has his politics, of course, but in this case he steers nicely clear of proposing any canned solutions.
[ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/opinion/03kristof.html?ref=opinion ]
So, folks -- what's the health care system like where you're from, what works, what doesn't, and what improvements can you think of? Is there something you think that you could successfully adopt from some other model, or something you think works so well in your system that other countries might want to copy it?
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