National Audit in the UK has the sorry news: the death rate for major trauma patients is twenty percent higher for similar patients in the United States. Also, there has been no improvement in twenty years' time for such care in England.
More gubmit involved in health care creates lower quality and higher costs. Kinda like public education.
Source available approximately midway through this BBC Newspod.
More gubmit involved in health care creates lower quality and higher costs. Kinda like public education.
Source available approximately midway through this BBC Newspod.
Paulina, I think the difference between schools here in the US versus the old USSR is simply this: Today the schools here are trying too hard to pull students down to the lowest common denominator. The schools in the old Soviet Union were trying to pull the students up to a higher level. Both systems were/are trying to indoctrinate the students, teaching them what to think rather than how to think.
I think you'll find that the failures described by the UK audit are due to individual hospitals and poor co-ordination between trauma experts and ambulances and not do to government involvement. As for education, I agree that policies like "no child left behind" have had a profound negative impact on our schools. I don't think however that there is always a correlations between government involvement and poor quality of education - having studied for years in a Soviet school I can tell you that the quality of education was significantly better than in any public school in the US.