United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P

Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by sandstrom on Saturday August 06, 2011 @08:37AM (#2853702)

3. The Healthcare System is interesting. The US simply pay a lot more than all other industrialized nations (and still everyone isn't covered).

These two graphs are quite telling: http://www.rwjf.org/images/pr/thumbs/full/45110.jpg http://media.economist.com/images/20090627/CBB677.gif

I think the problem is manifold, but here are some things that may be problematic (please let me know if you agree or disagree):

# Doctors risk getting sued for maltreatment, and thus they prescribe all possible medications, take too many samples and generally spend too much resources.

# On the same note, they also pay large insurances against lawsuits, increasing the costs further.

# Medicine prices are higher in the US, for reasons I don't fully understand.

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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by nickik on Sunday August 07, 2011 @08:35AM (#2856498)

Intressting, I'm from switzerland :)

In our system you need to have health care insurants. Its alot to pay but as far as I can tell we have one of the best systems and everybody really gets good treatment (my father is a doctor my mother is a nurce and my sister is studying medicin). Witch seams not to be the case in america (I watched Sicko, other then that I have know knowlage).

I can only compaire to some other europen countreys but when you get hurt in italy for example the first rule is to get to switzerland as fast as possible.

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