[quote=AN]SDEngineer, very informative study. Thanks for the link. The biggest thing that stands out to me is, we’re in desperate need to modernizing our health care system. A lot of these errors that’s being reported can be fixed if everything is computerized. A lot of the result are pretty similar between countries. We’re doing something right and some things are lacking. I agree we’re not perfect.[/quote]

Very true observation that we’re stuck in the 20th century where most other countries have moved into the 21st as regards medical care, and no doubt bringing us into the 21st century would help some in both improving quality of care and controlling costs.

However, the study does make one thing crystal clear – a socialized healthcare system will not by its very nature destroy the quality of healthcare in the U.S., despite what the private insurance companies (profits up nearly 500% over the past 10 years, as mergers and aquisitions have reduced the number of major players to less than 10 major insurors) are claiming in the mass media. Clearly, socialized medicine is capable of working, and working at a quality level at least as good as what our completly privatized system does today – and at a substantial savings.