Failing health.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Health care in Briton and United States - Brief Article

Those who scorn socialized medicine might ponder two recent findings from a study by the Commonwealth Fund of 6,957 recently hospitalized patients from the United States, Britain and five other countries with state-run health care. Thirty-four percent of Americans were victims of medical errors, but only 22 percent of Britons. Half of the Americans reported going without medical treatment because of its cost, but only 13 percent of Britons. The United States came out worst of all the countries in these two...