In passing the other morning, I saw Newt Gingrich on Fox & Friends. He said something in passing that I believe a lot more attention. Since I have not done the research on his rhetorical models right now, I will treat this as accidental rather than a pattern to allow myself some room to expound.
When he was describing the failures of certain cancer treatments in Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS), he described NHS's level of care and success as being circa 1955.
That comment hit me like a eureka moment. You can explain bad healthcare all you want, but put it in terms that represents the truth but allows an easy compare and contrast.
We need to have an objective measure of success and failure. Theirs is poor quality; ours top notch. Let's show it.
UPDATE: Here is Newt's comment that gave rise to this post:
To clarify, I am proposing creating a simple spreadsheet of ailments/treatments on one axis and country on the other. The data point for each country is the "Quality of Care stated as a year." The year represents the state of the art. The state of the art is the country with highest survival rate, lowest recuperation time, shortest time from diagnosis to completion of treatment, etc.
I postulate that the US would end up at or near the current year on most all treatments, where socialized countries would tend to be in the 1950's or so.
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