{"id":522,"date":"2009-08-31T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2009-08-31T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T17:50:00","slug":"tr-reid-busts-international-health-care-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"TR Reid Busts International Health Care Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was in my Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>, but also in other papers as well. TR Reid, of PBS “Sick Around the World”<\/a> has done the leg work and homework to become perhaps the most knowledgable journalist in the world on internation health care.<\/p>\n

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As Americans search for the cure to what ails our health-care system, we’ve overlooked an invaluable source of ideas and solutions: the rest of the world. All the other industrialized democracies have faced problems like ours, yet they’ve found ways to cover everybody — and still spend far less than we do. <\/p>\n

I’ve traveled the world from Oslo to Osaka to see how other developed democracies provide health care. Instead of dismissing these models as ‘socialist,’ we could adapt their solutions to fix our problems. To do that, we first have to dispel a few myths about health care abroad:<\/p>\n

Myth 1: It’s all socialized medicine out there.
Not so.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read on about myths 2-5:<\/em><\/p>\n

MYTH 2: Overseas, care is rationed through limited choices or long lines.
MYTH 3: Foreign health-care systems are inefficient, bloated bureaucracies.
MYTH 4: Cost controls stifle innovation.
MYTH 5: Health insurance has to be cruel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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