Quality Healthcare
The health system in Canada is funded mainly by provincial or territorial general tax revenue with some federal transfers and is free at the point of delivery for citizens. There is no cost-sharing for inpatient or outpatient care and prescription drug prices vary but are still inexpensive. We can do much better in America!!!
Medicare For All
The healthcare you receive should not be contingent upon your street address, zip code, skin color, religious beliefs, position, number of zeroes behind other numbers in your bank account, insurance, or any other factor that could severely reduce the quality of that care.
The United States consistently ranks near the bottom in healthcare quality compared to other developed nations, often lagging behind countries like Australia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Specifically, the U.S. has been ranked last overall in health system performance by various organizations. While the U.S. performs well in certain aspects of care, like patient-centeredness and access to innovation, it consistently underperforms on key health outcomes like life expectancy, infant mortality, and preventable deaths.
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the U.S. ranking in different areas:
Overall Health System Performance:
The U.S. has been ranked last overall in health system performance compared to other industrialized countries on measures like quality, efficiency, access to care, and health outcomes.
Health Outcomes:
The U.S. ranks poorly on key health outcomes like life expectancy, infant mortality, and preventable deaths, despite having a more expensive healthcare system.
Access to Care:
The U.S. has challenges in accessing affordable care, with a higher likelihood of patients forgoing care due to cost.
Quality of Care:
While the U.S. performs well on aspects of patient-centered care, it lags behind in areas like pandemic preparedness and response, and infrastructure, including having the lowest number of primary care physicians per capita.
Deciding upon the best course of action to assure that each American has access to the same level of cost (if any) without compromising the quality, should not be a partisan issue. Every American has a right to quality and affordable healthcare... period!
The U.S. health system trails far behind a number of other high-income countries when it comes to affordability, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes, according to a new Commonwealth Fund study. Using surveys and other standardized data on quality and health care outcomes to measure and compare patient and physician experiences across a group of 11 high-income nations, the researchers rank the United States last overall in providing equitably accessible, affordable, high-quality health care.
I am committed to fighting for passage of legislation that makes sure you and your family have access to quality healthcare that is affordable and that meets the standards of excellence set by the World Health Organization.