All Posts Tagged With: "WHO"
Ranking the U.S. Health-Care System
It is curious that the United States ranked below Europe in the World Health Organization’s 2000 World Health Report, which rated 191 countries’ medical systems. In his documentary Sicko, socialist Michael Moore makes hay out of the fact that the United States placed 37th, behind even Morocco, Cyprus, and Costa Rica. This ranking is used [...]
1Nov2007 | James Peron | 64 comments | ContinuedThe WHO Global Treaty on Tobacco: A Smokescreen for More Government Control
On May 10 the U.S. government signed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global treaty on tobacco control. While the treaty still has to be ratified by the Senate before it becomes the law of the land, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson declared at the signing: “President Bush and I look forward to [...]
1Jul2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedWHO’s Hidden Agenda
Twila Brase, R.N., is president of the Citizens’ Council on Health Care in St. Paul, Minnesota (www.cchcmin.org). The World Health Organization (WHO) didn’t blink twice before shooting down the United States’ world-class health-care system. In a recently released report, “The World Health Report 2000—Health Systems: Improving Performance,” the WHO ranked the overall performance of the [...]
1Dec2000 | Twila Brase | 0 comments | Continued-
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