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What causes more deaths in the US than corrupt health care?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/11856.php
195,000 deaths due to preventible medical errors
This information came from a study of 37 million patients' records by a healthcare quality firm, HealthGrades. The study, "HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals" (see http://www.healthgrades.com/media/DMS/pdf/Inhospit...
Similarly, in the Journal of the American Medical Association's article (2003) concerning a research study by Dr. Chunliu Zhan and Dr. Marlene R. Miller, the medical profession was named as the third leading cause of death in this country. The article broke down the statistics as follows:
12,000 deaths annually due to unnecessary surgical procedures
7,000 deaths in hospitals due to prescription medicine errors
20,000 deaths in hospitals due to other errors
80,000 deaths due to infections picked up while hospitalized
106,000 deaths due to negative effects of drugs administered while hospitalized These statistics add up to 225,000 patient deaths per year as the result of medical errors.
The research goes on to point out that these figures are higher than most other industrial countries.
AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WITH HEALTH CARE COVERAGE. Factor in the number of people than can't get health care and the number may jumpr to 500.000!
Buying... The problems are different but interrrelated. Improve one and you go a long way to improve the other.
What many people don't seem to understand is that we are now paying for the people that don't have insurance.
Jaryd M- I can certainly take care of my own needs, but others don't or can't. . I want them to make everyone pay something for health care. I don't want to pay for the $30,000 dollar operation someone needs because they couldn't get insulin. If they suffered the consequences I could see your point, but they don't. We do. I want the government to protect me from greedy insurance comapnies who only care about how much profit they can make. They would prefer to have me die (certainly quickly).
as.erwin- I don't if there was another way. When health care reform failed several years ago, the insurance carriers promised to reform themselves.
Big joke!
The only thing they improved was the number of Congressman they bought with their lobbyists.
ruth- I would certainly recommend not taking everything at face value.
Whay I recommend is that we take this opportunity to do something meaningful and constructive. And the first step is evaluate things as they really are- not get lost in a lot of rhetoric or shouting matches.
You imply a need for tort reform and I agree. It is certainly worth evaluating.
If other countries have less "errors", lets try to figure out why. My guess is that hospitals and doctors are under an undo amount of financial stress that impacts health care. But it is a guess.
Now is the time to find out.
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- titouLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
I was going to say handguns. But I must say your statistics outdo mine.
Interesting, though, to consider the health-care COST of handguns.
Let's see. About 35,000 killed each year y gunshots in the US. Conservatively, say ten people injured seriously enough for hospitalization for each one killed. Discounting the dead who actually died in surgery, that's 300,000 people of whom -- about 0% have insurance.
Average stay 10 days at $10,000, surgery, etc. another $50K -- that's $150K per patient in taxpayer money for each one. Times 300,000 -- let's see: carry the zeroes...that makes $45 Billion spent yearly to patch folks up and send them out to get shot again. Go polish your Smith and Wesson. You know what I mean.
Directly, it's evident that under the present system, excess and unneeded care is the key to profit, which -- not care -- is the name of the game. Just basic "traditions" show this. Why, for instance, do residents do 72-hour shifts in the wards and in Emergency while bona fide MD's and specialists are out on the golf course or dreaming in their feather-beds? How would anyone in their right mind see this as "normal"?
- 1 decade ago
I can easily tell you what causes more deaths in the US than our health care system, the complete lack of responsibility towards a healthy lifestyle.
More than 50% of Americans are somewhat overweight leading to countless medical problems. Don't get me wrong, there are people with legit problems that don't get the proper help, but maybe they should move to Canada where they can get their dog medical attention faster than a person could.
Our health care system is not perfect, no ones is...but if people would step up and live a better lifestyle, things would be different. We as a society have become so dependent on prescription and OTC meds it's PATHETIC!!! Stop relying on the govt. too provide for your needs. Only if our founding fathers could see how powerful our govt. has become....
- Buying is VotingLv 71 decade ago
Corrupt health care? Do you mean the health insurance industry? Do not equate health care and health insurance. They are different things.
How could people who can't get health care die from medical errors? That's what you insinuate at the end of the rant.
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- 1 decade ago
Each year 440,000 people die in the US from tobacco use. I would put my money on that.
Edit: To all you losers who smoke and are giving me negative rates. Get over it, smokings bad for you, there is plenty of evidence to prove it, but its not like i am preaching to everyone to quit smoking or anything. :P Jeeze.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You are Absolutely Correct on all accounts .
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Birth is the leading cause of death on planet Earth.
