Gupta showed a remarkable ignorance about the health care systems in several European countries. He tried to dismiss France’s universal health care program (defined by WHO as the best in the world) as nonviable economically. He reproduced the widely held erroneous belief that the universal and extensive welfare states in European countries are making their economies very uncompetitive. He stressed that the cost of universal health care in France is creating a public deficit that is a huge handicap to that country’s economic development. In fact, in percentage terms, the U.S. government deficit is larger than the French government deficit and, according to Davos (the Vatican of neoliberal thought), the French economy is as competitive as the U.S. economy, with higher productivity than the U.S. Moreover, the public medical care expenditures per capita are larger in the U.S. than in France. While France provides comprehensive benefits to its population, the U.S. does not. With a smaller amount of public funds, France and the majority of developed countries provide comprehensive coverage that will be a dream for the majority of our people.
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Not arguing against the quote, I claim that Sanjay Gupta as a young and successful neurosurgeon will adapt to Obama's health care view and amy end up being an excellent surgeon general.
Many of the members of the cabinet are way less qualified than Gupta (e.g. Geithner) and I am delighted to see the younger people doing well.
KoshemBos
neurosurgeon
as the article points out, being a neurosurgeon offers no training for being administering America's public health service, particularly when everything Gupta's knows about public health is wrong.
this isn't brain surgery!
i've wanted to say that for soooo long now.
Just because somebody's a great cook...
... doesn't mean they should be in charge of agricultural policy.
Just because somebody's a surgeon doens't mean that they should be Surgeon General.
For a remarkable number of disqualifying statements, see the Sanjay Gupta tag in the post. I mean, human cloning?
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