Topic: Iatrogenic

Radio Talk Shows Hosts vs. Common Sense: Britons receive worse health care than we do

By Blayne Clements | August 24, 2009 |

This week on the third most listened to conservative radio show, the host said the following, and I am paraphrasing here:

“30,000 Britons die annually from staph infections contracted in a hospital. The per capita equivalent in the US would translate into 150,000 Americans dying of staph infections annually. The actual number of Americans dying of staph infection is much lower than that, therefore, our for-profit healthcare system in the US is much better than the taxpayer funded health care system in the UK.” «Read the rest of this article»

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