The Sick State of Health Care
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Two articles in yesterdays news highlighted some concerns regarding healthcare in the US. According to a new study out by the RAND corporation, the quality of healthcare in the US is substandard yet few have done anything to correct the problem.According to the article, a recent World Health Organization (WHO) ranks the United States 37th in the world in relationship to overall health system performance. The article also mentions the Institute of Medicine's November 1999 report on health care quality. The IOM estimated that medical errors cause as many as 98,000 deaths a year. What is most striking about the RAND study is why something has not been done to solve America's healthcare problems. While the authors describe several reasons for why poor quality persists, the following quote should get you thinking... "There is rarely a credible threat that poor-quality providers will be driven out of business or even suffer a significant loss of revenue," the RAND team writes in the report. (time for a credible threat) A second article is based on a study of medical doctors and their witnessing of medical errors. According to the article, "95 percent of doctors in a new survey said they have witnessed serious medical errors." According to the article, one individual "compared the medical field to the situation for American car makers in the 1970s when Toyota revolutionized the rules for producing automobiles." The individual stated, "Health care needs some Toyotas." What health care needs is a few good chiropractors.Yahoo News: RAND: U.S. Faces Healthcare 'Quality Deficit'
Your Health Daily: Health Professionals Give Low Grades to U.S. Health Care
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