Rush: The people of Great Britain don’t like the National Health Service

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Half as much as Britain with one fifth the population.

I don't believe forty million Americans are hospitalized each year. Your factoid was six percent of British patients get infections. Mine was a round number, but more than forty million Amercans would need to be hospitalized each year to get close the the British percentage. Advantage GB.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I don't believe forty million Americans are hospitalized each year. Your factoid was six percent of British patients get infections. Mine was a round number, but more than forty million Amercans would need to be hospitalized each year to get close the the British percentage. Advantage GB.

Not quite - these aren't the most recent figures but the US does look pretty good in this area.

[rocks 494]

I don't believe forty million Americans are hospitalized each year. Your factoid was six percent of British patients get infections. Mine was a round number, but more than forty million Amercans would need to be hospitalized each year to get close the the British percentage. Advantage GB.

The CDC MRSA report studied the U.S. incidence and mortality rates for 2005. Researchers estimate 94,360 invasive MRSA infections occurred that year, with 18,650 cases resulting in death. This total case number is nearly triple a CDC 2001 estimate of 31,440.

C. diff is linked to about 14,000 U.S. deaths a year, according to the MMWR study. More than 90% of those deaths occur in people 65 and older. In 1999-2000, the infection was related to about 3,000 deaths a year, data show.

This is totally irrelevant when you look at facts like this:

The U.S. health system is underperforming in delivering care that could prevent heart attacks, stroke, cancer and the spread of HIV, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For example, only 47% of Americans diagnosed with ischemic cardiovascular disease were prescribed aspirin or another antiplatelet, according to federal survey data from 2005 to 2008 analyzed in a CDC report published as a special supplement to the June 15 Morbidity and Mortality and Weekly Report.

Meanwhile, 44% of adults with hypertension had their blood pressure under control and fewer than 8% of tobacco users were prescribed medication to help them quit smoking. About 30% of patients who should be screened for hyperlipidemia were not, the report said. Improving systemwide use of aspirin, blood pressure control, cholesterol management and smoking cessation is a key aim of the Dept. of Health and Human Services’ Million Hearts initiative, a $200 million private-public project launched in September 2011.

Edited August 1, 2012 by rocks

[Darnell 8,479]

So, did Rush use poll data from a nationally-recognized polling company, or was simply his conjecture ?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

So, did Rush use poll data from a nationally-recognized polling company, or was simply his conjecture ?

In Rush's case, it was personal insight given to him by God.

[Darnell 8,479]

so, it's diarrhea, really.

OK. got it.