{"id":25582,"date":"2020-05-18T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25582"},"modified":"2020-05-18T19:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T23:16:15","slug":"new-gallup-report-undermines-the-myth-of-superior-european-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25582\/new-gallup-report-undermines-the-myth-of-superior-european-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gallup Report Undermines the Myth of &#8220;Superior&#8221; European Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Socialized medicine advocates curiously but persistently suggest that European models offer a superior alternative to the American healthcare system that relies more on private market forces and strong intellectual property rights.\u00a0 Gallup offers an important corrective, even if unintentionally.\u00a0 Whereas the percentage of Americans rating their healthcare as positive has <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25178\/image-of-the-day-bad-news-socialized-medicine-advocates\/\">remained within a high 76% to 83% window for years<\/a>, Europeans consistently rate their healthcare satisfaction <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/306092\/satisfaction-healthcare-access-lacking-spain-italy.aspx?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=o_social_7191fddd-11d9-4243-a50e-f74654852d16&amp;utm_term=gallup&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;fbclid=IwAR3Q4zm3hU_dsgCQhbLUBhhUMZ8KRZWc1hXXK7TSghvv3n4o-D2Uw8KeY5c\">substantially lower<\/a>, with only Germany matching American satisfaction levels:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Germany:\u00a0 84% approve\/15% disapprove<\/p>\n<p>United Kingdom:\u00a0 76% approve\/22% disapprove<\/p>\n<p>France:\u00a0 74% approve\/25% disapprove<\/p>\n<p>Spain:\u00a0 68% approve\/31% disapprove<\/p>\n<p>Italy:\u00a0 51% approve\/487% disapprove<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s important to remember as calls for socialized medicine become louder amid the coronavirus pandemic and as November elections approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialized medicine advocates curiously but persistently suggest that European models offer a superior alternative to the American healthcare system that relies more on private market forces and strong intellectual property rights.\u00a0 Gallup offers an important corrective, even if unintentionally.\u00a0 Whereas the percentage of Americans rating their healthcare as positive has remained within a high 76% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[590,842,861,2871,2872,966],"class_list":["post-25582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-europe","tag-gallup","tag-healthcare","tag-intellectual-property","tag-ip","tag-socialized-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25585,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25582\/revisions\/25585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}