What is health care like in the UK, Canada and New Zealand?
Three systems widely cited as examples of universal health care are the so-called single-payer systems in the UK, Canada and...
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May 28, 2009
What is the cause of excess costs in US healthcare?
Category: Health Care
The question has come up again and again in our discussions on health care in the US and around the world, why does it cost so much more in the US when we get so much less?
Posted by MarkH at 12:26 PM • 37 Comments •
What is health care like in France?
Category: Health Care
Here it comes. How dare I suggest the US could learn anything from France? By most assessments France provides the best health care in the world, with excellent life expectancy, low rates of health-care amenable disease, and again, despite providing excellent universal care, they spend less per capita than the US.
Posted by MarkH at 6:21 AM • 7 Comments •
May 27, 2009
What is healthcare like in Germany?
Category: Health Care
What better argument for universal health care can you make than that of Germany? By far one of the most successful systems, it has had some form of universal health care for almost 130 years, and is currently one of the most successful health care systems in the world.
Posted by MarkH at 6:36 AM • 17 Comments •
May 26, 2009
Denying AIDS - A book by Seth Kalichman
Category: Book Reviews
Seth Kalichman is a better man than I. Kalichman is a clinical psychologist, editor of the journal Aids and...
Posted by MarkH at 6:56 AM • 57 Comments •
What is healthcare like in the Netherlands?
Category: Health Care
The Dutch really have it together on health care, they have a system that has been proposed as a model for the US to emulate. In stark contrast to many other European systems, it's actually based entirely on private insurers, rather than a single-payer or entirely national system. Yet the Dutch system is universal, has far superior rates of satisfaction with quality of care and access, and still costs a fraction of what we pay for health care per capita in the US. How is this possible?
Posted by MarkH at 6:20 AM • 37 Comments •
May 25, 2009
What's health care like in Australia?
Category: Health Care
To start off some balanced discussions of what universal health care looks like around the world, I thought I would begin with Australia, a system that we could learn a great deal from.
Posted by MarkH at 6:32 AM • 34 Comments •
May 23, 2009
NHS has broken the cycle!
Category: Science
A few days ago I asked how do we break this cycle of news reports based on terrible misreading of the scientific literature literature. All these reports do is spread misinformation and undermine trust in scientific research. Well, the British National Health System has the answer!
Posted by MarkH at 2:43 PM • 4 Comments •
May 22, 2009
Are Patients in Universal Healthcare Countries Less Satisfied?
Category: Health Care
A dishonest campaign has started against healthcare reform in this country and the first shot has come from Conservatives for Patients Rights (CPR), a group purporting to show that patients in universal health systems suffer from government interference in health care. But what do the data show?
Posted by MarkH at 7:00 AM • 66 Comments •
May 21, 2009
The 111th Skeptics' circle, featuring that creepy Sham-Wow guy
Category: Carnivals
I have no idea what possessed Action Skeptics to use the Sham Wow guy to present this week's entries, but...
Posted by MarkH at 8:39 AM • 3 Comments •
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