Re: US healthcare system
sure, so lets have a bachelors level degree. seems to be working in other countries that are ahead of us in the preventable death stats. That alone shows there is an issue.
Oh please. People eat themselves into their coffins and it's the doctors fault. How many of those preventable deaths were sequelae of obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and all sorts of other illnesses that Americans eat themselves into? It's no secret that Americans are among some of the unhealthiest people in the world...you don't think our lousy diets and sedentary lifestyles have anything to do with that?
I also think we have a tendency to over-medicate here...deathly-ill patients will be put through operations and then put on life support in the ICU...only to die of something 'preventable' like sepsis a few days later, instead of just being allowed to die 'naturally' like they would in other countries. But what are you going to do in a country where everyone feels entitled to sue the pants off their physicians for just about anything?