Well, the United States, we have 350 Million People here. We have such a diverse we do not have a homogenous society, which is much more typical in many other countries around the world. I did want to make a point about life expect answery, and the w. H. O. Often says the United States ranked 37th out of 190 countries. As professor steven wolf in the institute of medicine study, which was really based on Life Expectancy, he said Life Expectancy and other noted Health Outcomes are determined by much more than health care. Here in america, when you look at our lifestyle choices, we have a huge obesity problem. We have homicides and car accident deaths at a much higher per capita rate than any other country in the world. When you look at the numbers for fiveyear survival rates for cancer, the United States ranks number one in the world on 13 of the 16 most popular cancers. You have to compare apples to apples. Thank you very much. My time is expired, mr. Chairman. Let me say before i ask
The issue of wait times, when it comes to emergent care, canadians are not waiting substantially longer than our peers in other countries including the United States. Unfortunately, it was true that has not been the case for medical care such as nondiagnostic imaging. A great deal of work was underway to address this challenge. And indeed, waits have been decreasing over the last decade. It is important to note that moving away from a single payer model would likely exacerbate our wait time challenge rather than alleviate it by drawing Critical Health Human Resources out of the public system. This is bourn out by International Evidence from other jurisdictions such as australia. The canadian system is proof that Public Health Care Insurance need not be provided federally in order to achieve the benefits of the single payer model. In canada, each province provides Public Health Care Insurance to its residents with minimum standards set at the federal level. Furthermore, moving to single
Performance is called avoidable mortality. That is in a Good Health Care system, women should not die in child birth. People should not die of tuberculosis. People should not die of aschemic Heart Disease. People should not die of cancers that can be cured. And when we look at that, im embarrassed to say that we come out in the United States as 19 and the french come out as number 1, i repeat, number 1. That is a fact that cannot be ignored. It must be addressed. It was written up in health affairs, a reputable journal. It was confirmed with different measures by the oecd, and it has not received in my judgment sufficient discussion. Another indicator of how well a system is doing and a theme of this subcommittee that i know is dear to chairman sanders is access to primary care. You can talk about primary care until youre blue in the face, but lets look at the consequences of whether you receive primary care or not in Different Health care systems. We have a very established measure of
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Drying out. Nic nicer, warmer weather is ahead for friday. Its friday. Good morning. This is nbc news 10. Lets not yurpd state the fact it is friday. Bill henley, as he promised, we got the rain out of the way. After all, its friday, it should be nice. There are still clouds overhead. Were seeing breaks but we should get dry. 55 degrees at nbc 10. The winds will be picking up this afternoon. The radar view completely clear. 55 northeast philly. Wilmington, 57. Dropped down into 40s for mill vail. Pocono mountains are gusting to 30 miles an hour. The wind wont be as strong for most of the day as compared to yesterday. 53 degrees at 7 00. 60s by noontime. Lets check in with first alert traffic reporter jillian mele. We dont have too many details about this axe did not but its a good idea. Things are looking great at midcounty. Your drive time is looking very good. 95 to 76, 18 minutes. 76 to 476 is 14 minutes. From woodhaven to the vine, about 13 minutes. Breaking news from november kite