Billboards Showing ER Wait Times Appear In Tampa Bay Area

[Merkinball]

Brought to you, in part, by a failure of the U.S. healthcare system to convince Americans to abstain from such unhealthy practices. - JollyRoger

What does this have to do with the US healthcare system? A lot of people die for reasons that cannot be controlled by a doctor. People choosing to engage in unhealthy habits is not a failure of our healthcare system. Furthermore, reducing your argument to "convincing" people how to behave or act is clutching at straws.

How does the issue of hospital transfers relate to the issue?

That was your assertion, so defend it or withdraw.

The rest is a chewbacca defence with no relation to your assertion. - GinandTonic

Dude, I already reiterated this. I wasn't using your idea of relocations. I was using your statement that places that have better care take on more extreme medical cases, and thus see increased mortality rates. Like the US neo-natal care that is the best on earth without question. We have the tech, so we have stricter standards, and see more extreme medical cases which increases our mortality rate.

 

[JollyRoger]

What does this have to do with the US healthcare system?

It is designed in a way to address problems once they arise, not to prevent them from arising in the first place. Superior from a reactionary standpoint, inferior from a proactive standpoint.

 

[GinandTonic]

Dude, I already reiterated this. I wasn't using your idea of relocations. I was using your statement that places that have better care take on more extreme medical cases, and thus see increased mortality rates. Like the US neo-natal care that is the best on earth without question. We have the tech, so we have stricter standards, and see more extreme medical cases which increases our mortality rate.

What is it about the US that places the US healthcare system, as it relates to newborn's, under such a massive and unique pressure not present in the UK or Canada?

Note - access to and quality of primary health care are not only part of the definition of health care but, well, the primary aspect of health care. Hence the term.

 

[Traitorfish]

Dude, I already reiterated this. I wasn't using your idea of relocations. I was using your statement that places that have better care take on more extreme medical cases, and thus see increased mortality rates. Like the US neo-natal care that is the best on earth without question. We have the tech, so we have stricter standards, and see more extreme medical cases which increases our mortality rate.

Do you really think that very many infants are actually brought to the US to recieve care? You'd have to dig up some statistics to back that up, and I think you'd have a hard time finding anyone- any nation with a population wealthy enough for this to become anything approaching regular would probably have pretty decent healthcare themselves, or at least enough so that anything other than those rare, baby-with-head-of-a-bull sort of case can be effectively treated at home.