Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements

Re:Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements by DennisP on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:24AM (#10601019)

There are countries where few people have insurance. Health outcomes are poor.

There are other countries where everybody has insurance and the government negotiates medical prices. Japan, Germany, and France are three examples. They have much lower costs than the U.S. and the best health outcomes in the world, measured on criteria like death rates after diagnosis of major disease.

Source: Healing America by T.R. Reid.

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Re:Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements by silentplummet on Friday November 20, 2015 @09:32AM (#10601294)

Something else those countries have (to varying extent) is strong public transportation and an ancient and coherent food culture, which has helped them resist the epidemic of obesity and diabetes we are suffering in the US. Does your book address this?

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Re:Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements by DennisP on Friday November 20, 2015 @09:47AM (#10601370)

Those sorts of things affect disease incidence rates but not "death rates after diagnosis of major disease."

And Japan, for example, has an aging population of heavy smokers.

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