Monday, September 28, 2009
(photo: Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center)
There’s a reason why the United States doesn’t need health care reform—Americans don’t want it. According to conservative activist Janice Shaw Crouse, polls show that 90% of people in the United States are satisfied with their health care coverage, and for plenty of good reasons.
America’s health care is first-rate, with a hospital system that is the envy of the world, causing half a million foreign residents to come to the U.S. each year for medical care.
The United States is a leader in medical technology, developing many of the latest innovations in medical devices and pharmaceutical drugs. Whereas Canada and Britain have six MRI machines per million, the U.S. has 27 MRI machines per million. America also has 34 CT scanners per million, compared to only 12 for Canada and eight for Britain, per million.
And health care costs are lower in the U.S., with better results, than in Germany, Japan, Canada, and most countries in the European Union.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Does America Need Health Care Reform? (by Janice Shaw Crouse, Concerned Women for America)
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