Here's the commercial that ABC, NBC won't air., page 7

Originally posted by Gordi The Drummer
I was interested in one of the arguments against the healthcare reforms, that the system couldn't possibly cope with the extra 50 million patients who would suddenly need to be treated?

There is an OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development) database, which records among other things, the number of physicians / nursing staff / hospital beds etc and displays this information in a table of data, adjusted to show thoses numbers per head of population. (I'll include a link below.)
It makes very interesting reading, and if you look at the data for the US, in comparison with other nations...

In 2007 the USA had 2.43 physicians per 1000 head of population.
Canada had 2.18 per 1000, Mexico 1.96 per 1000, and UK 2.48 per 1000.

USA had 10.57 nurses per 1000 population.
Canada had 9.02, Mexico 2.35, and UK 10.02.

USA had 3.1 Hospital Beds per 1000 pop.
Canada 3.8 (in year 2000), Mexico 1.7, and UK 3.4.

USA Also had 25.9 MRI Units per million population,
Canada had 6.7, Mexico 1.5, and UK 8.2 (estimated) per million.

USA had 34.3 CT Scanners per million population.
Canada had 12.7, Mexico 4, and UK 4.5 (estimate from 2000).

Link to Source data on OECD website

From those stats, I can't see how anyone could argue that the healthcare system couldn't cope with the whole population having access?

G

Fantastic leg work...

The thing is, these people who do not want healthcare or the very notion of it.
IT goes against their core principles, ALL the other arguments are just another way to
STOP the whole issue from being addressed. They know if they can riddle it with doubt, it will sink like a ship shot to hell.

There is no amount of information or benefit that would change the minds of these people. They have been taught that Americans have to "earn" everything, that free healthcare makes people lazy, that they have NO responsibility for the well being of these lazy people.

Get it, NO responsibility to anyone but them selves, this is the VERY CORE of the entire debate. They just paint her up with anything that was not there in the first place, reason be damned, people be damned all the same. I think it has very little to do with healthcare on the oppositions side, it has to do with ideas.

This conservative freedom they sell in America is the hands off sort...

Every man is an island here.