[lit-ideas] Re: The flu
- From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:04:33 -0800 (PST)
The thing that I don't understand at all, is how you
can spend that much on healthcare and still not have
universal coverage?
From OECD Observer, page 8 - 9
(http://oecdpublications.gfi-nb.com/cgi-bin/OECDBookShop.storefront/EN/product/012004071E1)
2002 figures:
USA
Total healthcare expenditure: 14.6% GDP, $5267 per
capita
Of that public expenditure: 44.9%, which means 6.6%
GDP and $2364 per capita
UK
7.7 GDP, $2160
84.4, 6.5 GDP, $1823
France (often consider best care in Europe)
9.7 GDP, $2736
76%, 7.4 GDP, $2079
And rest of the OECD falls in line. So it shouldn't be
a financing issue.
Perplexed,
Teemu
Helsinki, Finland
--- Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Saturday, November 20, 2004, 10:02:14 PM, Mike Geary
> wrote:
>
>
> MG> Here's the reply Reply. It isn't Texascare,
> it's TennCare -- Tennessee
>
> sorry -- I read the piece (NYT?) rather too fast.
>
>
> I
> MG> know a couple of people who are extremely
> distraught over the coming
> MG> abandonment of TennCare. Friends who take
> psychopharmaceuticals worth a
> MG> thousand dollars plus a month. There's no way
> they can afford that and they
> MG> earn over the Medicaid cut-off income level.
>
>
> Yes. The article I read quoted a woman who needs
> medication that costs more than $1000 a month. It's
> terrible.
>
>
>
> Maybe they'll flip out without
> MG> their meds and uzi out the entire government.
> I'd support that.
>
> not such a bad idea
>
>
>
>
> --
> Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
> mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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