If Americans think health care in the U.S. is bad, “they should go to Canada and find a specialist,” Dana Perino suggested on “The Five” Tuesday night. “Go to Scotland. Go to England. It’s a disaster, isn’t it?” she added.
Ms Perino claimed her late mother-in-law struggled for 18 weeks to find a treatment for her urinary tract infection, possibly in Canada, Scotland or England.
“And I understand how frustrated people are on all sides of this issue, but when you say, as Bernie Sanders did today, that health care is a right, he’s saying he doesn’t agree with violence. But he’s showing us what he’s showing us.” People came to know that health care is a right. Okay, if you believe that, how do you pay for it? ” Perino added.
Of course, as is usual with right-wing claims about health care, what Perino says is not actually true. In fact, the United States consistently lags behind other developed countries in medical outcomes.
For example, the Commonwealth Fund is a private nonprofit foundation based in the United States that provides grants for medical care and financially supports health-related research, and in 2021, Comparing medical systems out of 11 high-income countries.
The first section of the report assessed the performance of the country’s health system across five categories: access to health care, health care processes, administrative efficiency, equity, and health outcomes. The list of countries included Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States.
The United States ranked last in every category except care processes, which ranked second. The overall ranking of the U.S. health care system was 11/11, the lowest.
The fourth section of the report also reveals that while the United States is a leader in health spending, it once again ranks last in terms of health system performance.
“The United States performed worst on affordable subdomains, scoring much lower than the next lowest country, Switzerland (Exhibit 5). “German residents are much less likely to report that their insurance has denied a claim or paid less than expected,” the report’s authors found. “Residents in these countries are also less likely to report difficulty paying for health care.”
Of course, there’s always the possibility that Perino meant it in a positive way. Perhaps she was actually giving advice to Americans who are fed up with prices that are too high. often cruel system They are instead preoccupied with checking out something better. I’ll keep an eye out for further comments on this topic.
You can watch a clip of “The Five” in the video below.
post Video of Dana Perino saying Americans who think socialized medicine will solve Luigi Mangione’s insurance industry concerns should move to Canada. It first appeared The Wrap.
