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Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause Of Death In The US, Caus
An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports that medical errors have become the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. Not only is this tragic, but is particularly ironic given the high costs of health care in the US. Furthermore, poor performance of health care in the US was recently confirmed by a World Health Organization study, which used different data and ranked the United States as 15th among 25 industrialized countries.
An important question to ask here is if this is a sign of things getting worse, getting better or staying the same. I know the numbers were much much worse 100 years ago. The human body is so complex that a hit or miss approach to diagnosis is inevitable in many cases. It would be meaningful to see how those figures have changed over the years and what the difference between those 25 "industrialized" nations actually is. Large differences would be very telling while small differences are merely petty.
Most "industrialized" nations require much larger amounts of income tax with some closer to 50%. These countries have a greater medical system that isn't built around a patient's ability to pay. Americans prefer to pay less tax and this is partly a consequence of that choice.
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