Iraq to get Univesal Health Care

[jolair]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
That's a nice article there but it still doesn't explain why Saddam spent billions on palaces and stupid **** instead of feeding his own people.

Meanwhile the people in Northern Iraq (who DID spend oil money on food) were doing fine the whole time.

From "THE HEALTH CONDITIONS OF THE POPULATION IN IRAQ SINCE THE GULF CRISIS" by WHO

http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cahier/irak/huma-oms-mars1996

Incidence rates of new malaria cases in Iraq, 1989-1994

Year Malaria incidence rate
(15 Governorates) (3 Northern Governorates)
No. Per 100 000 No. Per 100 000
1989 1 510 10.4 1 918 87.2
1990 1 761 11.7 2 163 95
1991 4 025 25.9 1 087 46.1
1992 5 535 34.4 12 916 530.2
1993 4 589 27.6 36 490 1 466.0
1994 22 169 128.7 67 462 2 585.2

Source : Ministry of Health, Government of Iraq

[Bereta_Eder]

Every civilized nation has universal health care


(few can even get it to function adequately )

[jolair]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Every civilized nation has universal health care
(few can even get it to function adequately )

[Bereta_Eder]

if you get it to run efficiently... and without any corruption... but still I don't think it has such a low cost...

[Az]

Just try and see how much do our systems cost in comparison to the americans' as a percentage of GDP.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by jolair


From "THE HEALTH CONDITIONS OF THE POPULATION IN IRAQ SINCE THE GULF CRISIS" by WHO

http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cahier/irak/huma-oms-mars1996

Incidence rates of new malaria cases in Iraq, 1989-1994

Year Malaria incidence rate
(15 Governorates) (3 Northern Governorates)
No. Per 100 000 No. Per 100 000
1989 1 510 10.4 1 918 87.2
1990 1 761 11.7 2 163 95
1991 4 025 25.9 1 087 46.1
1992 5 535 34.4 12 916 530.2
1993 4 589 27.6 36 490 1 466.0
1994 22 169 128.7 67 462 2 585.2

Source : Ministry of Health, Government of Iraq

Ah, interesting your numbers stop at 1995.

You probably should have posted the following paragraph that was listed directly above your chart:

However, in 1995, WHO, in collaboration with the European Union, has been able to raise funds and to control the malaria outbreak significantly in the northern provinces.

[Jaguar]

I propose that everyone in the US but Che gets universal health care.

[DinoDoc]

I said that on the first page.

[Jaguar]

Hmm, so you did. Great minds and all...

[Jaguar]

Well I second the motion.

[Dis]

I propose that Che gets universal health care and no one else does.

[Jaguar]

Voice from crowd: Heretic! Stone him!
Others: Yes! Stone him!

[Sava]

Universal Health Care would cost less than the current system of Insurance. I read the same Labor study that Che mentioned. But why should rational fact get in the way of stubborn opposition?

[Edan]

Originally posted by Sava
Universal Health Care would cost less than the current system of Insurance. I read the same Labor study that Che mentioned. But why should rational fact get in the way of stubborn opposition?

A Labor party study - couldn't be a little bit biased, could it?

The grass is always greener... We don't have universal health care, so of course it's cheaper to have a universal health care system. If we had a health care system, it would, of course, be cheaper to privatize it.

I'm a democrat, and I would love universal health care - provided it were financially feesable and remains financially feasable. I don't want to hear, like we do with medicare and social security, that universal healthcare will only be solvent for the next X years. And I am not at all convinced that it wont fall into that trap.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
I propose that everyone in the US but Che gets universal health care.

I could live with that.