Real Healthcare Comparison Statistics - The truth? No spin?

[WhiskeyGirl]

Australians are now seeing a GP or specialist more than once every two months. Figures from the Department of Health show Australians now make an average of 6.3 trips to the doctor a year, compared to 5.8 visits in Canada, 5 in the UK, 4.7 in New Zealand and just 3.8 in the US.

The Japanese were the nationality most likely to race off to a doctor (an average of 13.6 trips a year), while citizens of Sweden were the least, with an average of just 2.8 visits.

Treasury's intergenerational report released earlier this month predicted that the share of federal spending on health would grow from about 4 per cent of GDP to more than 7 per cent over the next four decades.

How much of our GDP does Obama want to spend on DEBT?  Healthcare?

In future, a key culprit for the cost blowout will be the contentious 30 per cent private health insurance rebate, which the government wants to limit by means-testing, but it has failed to pass the changes in the Senate. Treasury predicted the rebate's cost would surge to an average of $319 (in today's dollars) per person by 2022, from $192 in 2012.

The cost of running hospitals is expected to rise sharply, from $594 per person to $803 by 2022, while the cost of subsidising pharmaceuticals is expected to rise in real terms from $443 per person to $534.

How much does the US spend per person on running hospitals?  Why isn't Obama bringing down hospital costs?

How much does the US spend per person on pharmaceuticals? Why isn't Obama working on bringing DOWN the cost of pharmaceuticals?

I think it costs many Americans on Part D more than $443 per person to buy the Part D insurance.

read more here http://www.theage.com.au/national/rudd-cure-for-growing-health-bill-20100213-nyiy.html

What are the per person costs associated with treating Americans?

Treating illegal aliens?

[WhiskeyGirl]

PUBLIC hospitals will face a resurgence of people power under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plan to force the states to be more accountable.

The Prime Minister will announce there will be a "provision" for regional and local communities to share in public hospital management – but it will not be in the same form as the Coalition's plan to re-establish hospital boards.

Mr Rudd's plan, to be unveiled soon, does not allow for public hospitals to be managed directly from Canberra.

It comes as an online poll from Essential Media Communications yesterday found that 58 per cent of those surveyed supported the Federal Government taking over responsibility for public hospitals.

"If they can make some private income, they keep it without losing their government money," Mr Abbott told a radio station yesterday.

"The CEO is responsible to people who he talks to every day. The patients get to talk to the people on the board every day.

"At the moment, decisions are made by some faceless official in head office who never has to talk to the people affected by the decisions and it just doesn't work like that."

read more here http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26729316-953,00.html

Who are nameless faceless Obamacrats accountable too?