Repeal Health care or this is what will happen next over here... (health care system, stats)
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This is the stupidest thing I have ever read. Why on earth would you remove poor people from our infant mortality rate? Just because you ignore them doesn't mean they don't exist. Fortunately the vast majority of my generation (people under 35) actually believe in providing decent health care to all americans and not creating mythical statistics that ignore demographic groups other than one's own.
No. What's stupid is comparing countries with populations of 5 or 10 million with that of 300,000,000.
What's more stupid is comparing countries with relatively homogeneous populations to that of a huge melting pot of huge demographic and fiscal diversity.
No. What's stupid is comparing countries with populations of 5 or 10 million with that of 300,000,000.
What's more stupid is comparing countries with relatively homogeneous populations to that of a huge melting pot of huge demographic and fiscal diversity.
You should be careful spewing these trash talking points around people who actually know stuff! This isn't your cousin Eddie's house on a Friday night. I know i can't change your mind, and studies show that the conservatives entrench further when presented with opposing facts, but hopefully this debate will change the mind of some people who are on the fence.
"Fiscal diversity" - is that referring to our shrinking middle class and growingly enormous gap between rich and poor? Closing that gap is part of the point of health care reform and something a lot of us care about.
You painted 32 diverse countries with a single brush stroke. You inferred that japan had a population of 5-10 million!!!!
Are some racially homogeneous? Yes. Are they all? I don't think so.
Consider though, that Australia has a 30% foreign-born population compared with about 11% in the United states. Consider that the czech republic has a GDP per capita of $15,000, about 1/3 that of the united states. So the argument that our diversity and poverty excuse our high infant mortality rate is invalid. It's off-the-cuff rambling that sounds good casually or on talk radio but makes no sense when you look at the data.
If you want to make this a debate about data, that would be great. But the facts tends to have a liberal bias.
Poor African Americans have n abnormally high death rate among infants which is double the national average. When you remove them from the equation the death rate in the US falls in line with the top countries in the world even with the odd reporting guidelines.
You can do that with statistics? Just remove the data sets you don't like? This changes everything!
Poor African Americans have n abnormally high death rate among infants which is double the national average. When you remove them from the equation the death rate in the US falls in line with the top countries in the world even with the odd reporting guidelines.
Poor people live in other countries, too. The difference is, those poor people have access to care so that their country's health stats are better than ours.
Why should we remove the group that has double our national rate from the equation? Do they not matter? Just cover our eyes? Shouldn't we be working towards improving health for all groups in our country?
Poor African Americans have n abnormally high death rate among infants which is double the national average. When you remove them from the equation the death rate in the US falls in line with the top countries in the world even with the odd reporting guidelines.
If we could only figure out a way to fudge the charts, rather than help the families...
UTRECHT- The high number of babies that in Netherlands dies during pregnancy or childbirth, may have to do with the fact that a lot of work with midwives. The number of babies that in Netherlands during childbirth, is one of the highest in Europe.
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That is apparent from examination of the UMC Utrecht that Wednesday in the journal bmj is published. Volkskrant and NRC Next wrote about the research. Pregnant women are twice as likely that their baby dies as they begin their birth with a midwife instead of a gynecologist. That chance is even almost four times as high as the wife during a home delivery to the hospital must or is transferred to the gynecologist.
During Prinsjesdag was already known that the Ministry of health in the coming year 24 million euro funding to tackle the babysterfte. That amount must for 2012 and beyond reach 38 million euros.
I can tell you life experience of our own children being born over there....no painkillers, a midwife waiting and waiting for over 24 hours after the water was broken and risking a lot....
Second child was born in the hospital after they want to sent us home, but we insisted to stay there since we had a medical indication...only after an almost complete delivery but the baby got stuck an emergency C-section took place and the baby was born with an Apcar score of 2!
Very scary but luckily both kids are doing very well and are straight A honor students but it was within seconds of being a complete different life for all of us.
Please repeal health care!
How do you think you're going to repeal health care anyway? Good luck with that, lol.
You can do that with statistics? Just remove the data sets you don't like? This changes everything!
In this case we're looking for root causes to better understand the reason. For example from the same dataset we could determine another factor is because the US has a abnormally high amount of premature births compared to other nations. What's the reason for that?
I'll have to correct myself because I was going from memory with my original post it's not just poor African Americans but African American infants in general.
Sorry if the facts aren't PC, they are what they are. If you want to talk about statistics you need to understand how you arrive at them.
Quite often I look at a patient of mine and think, "You would have been dead in x other country."
Not because they don't care...but because they don't have the resources I have at my fingertips. They have to practice way more based on statistics...if you practice just based on evidence-based statistics (which in most cases is fine, but be aware that they are about cost-control and resource allocation), I know many patients we have had that would be dead today...
Gut intuition and a higher standard saves lives, too. But if you can't get the test or procedure because you simply don't have access to it, you're f'd.
Preventive care will keep your patients healthy, too.
"The new health care reform law (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or “PPACA”) will [as of Sept 23, 2010] require [x-insurance company] to cover additional preventive care services and eliminate member cost-sharing (copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance) for certain in-network preventive care services. Cost-sharing requirements for preventive care services rendered out-of-network will continue to apply as they do today.
"The list below provides an overview of services that will be covered under our updated Preventive Care Guidelines. Newly-added services, including those associated with previously-covered screenings and vaccines whose scope has been expanded, are noted in italics."
"To understand the scope and details of the preventive care recommendations on which these changes are based, please refer to materials at the following link:
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