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Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager for Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team. She's co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O'Reilly, December 2013) and a senior editor at GeekMom, a site for those who find their joy in both geekery and parenting. She's a maker at heart who is often behind a sewing machine creating costumes, rolling fondant for an excessively large cake, or looking for the next great DIY project.
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But it's not about efficiency at all--you're giving 99designs a hard time for having only one beneficiary in the end. That's just a fact of the project at hand. How would you suggest they change?
Ron--We have the highest health spending and the highest paid doctors. But we have merely a fraction of our population covered. We don't have the highest life expectancy, but our infant mortality is up there. Unlike many other countries, we don't support women's health by guaranteeing paid maternity leave. (FMLA is unpaid.) But let's not bother with such statistics. How about a study?
via http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/opinion/12sun1.html
"Seven years ago, the World Health Organization made the first major effort to rank the health systems of 191 nations. France and Italy took the top two spots; the United States was a dismal 37th. ... [The Commonwealth Fund's] latest report, issued in May, ranked the United States last or next-to-last compared with five other nations — Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom — on most measures of performance, including quality of care and access to it. Other comparative studies also put the United States in a relatively bad light."
So by what measure do we have the best healthcare?