Docs 3rd leading cause of death in US; MMoore's next film on US healthcare

[scottxyz]

Doctors are the third leading cause of death in the US, coming right after heart disease and cancer:

http://www.health-care-reform.net/causedeath.htm

Michael Moore has announced this his next documentary will target the US health care industry:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1248551,00.html

Give 'em hell, Mike!

[Devils Advocate NZ]

1. In an attempt to look on the bright side...

Even more significantly, the medical system has played a large role in undermining the health of Americans. According to several research studies in the last decade, a total of 225,000 Americans per year have died as a result of their medical treatments:

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One of the key problems of the U.S. health system is that as many as 40 million people in the U.S. do not have access to healthcare. The social and economic inequalities that are an integral part of American society are mirrored in the inequality of access to the health care system. Essentially, families of low socioeconomic status are cut off from receiving a decent level of health care.

The only bright side of this that I can see is: How many of those people denied health care are alive today because their doctors never had a chance to kill them?

Perhaps being denied health care in the US is not such a bad thing after all?