According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the number of new cars considered the safest on the highway nearly tripled in 2008. The result was helped by automakers' push to make safety equipment more widely available. Ford and Honda had the most vehicles on the list in 2008.
Ford was represented on the list by the Ford Taurus, Mercury Sable and many other passenger cars while Honda has the Accord and several Acura models on the list. I find it very interesting in knowing the safest cars to drive as I have a family to protect. If I or my family is in an accident, I will feel better knowing that my car is considered safe following a battery of crash tests.
But this got me to thinking about healthcare. If my family is in an accident, what hospital will I choose? What physician is considered to be the best at savings lives? Obviously, if I drive the safest car, I do not want to skimp on emergency medical care that can cost your life. How will you know what is the best hospital in the U.S.?
Let's do a test. I typed in the keywords "safest automobile" into Google to get 22,800,000 results listed for my search. Now, let's try to Google "safest hospital." I get a total of 1,690,000 results returned for this search. There are 13.5 safe auto results returned for each safe hospital result! The search term "safest doctor" is in the neighborhood of the hospital count with 1,690,000 listings.
How would you go about explaining the difference in the two results? Is it more important to drive a safe automobile than choose a safe hospital? Or maybe all hospitals are safe so we do not need to worry about safety at hospitals. I think you are starting to get where I am going with this line of questioning.
Ford was represented on the list by the Ford Taurus, Mercury Sable and many other passenger cars while Honda has the Accord and several Acura models on the list. I find it very interesting in knowing the safest cars to drive as I have a family to protect. If I or my family is in an accident, I will feel better knowing that my car is considered safe following a battery of crash tests.
But this got me to thinking about healthcare. If my family is in an accident, what hospital will I choose? What physician is considered to be the best at savings lives? Obviously, if I drive the safest car, I do not want to skimp on emergency medical care that can cost your life. How will you know what is the best hospital in the U.S.?
Let's do a test. I typed in the keywords "safest automobile" into Google to get 22,800,000 results listed for my search. Now, let's try to Google "safest hospital." I get a total of 1,690,000 results returned for this search. There are 13.5 safe auto results returned for each safe hospital result! The search term "safest doctor" is in the neighborhood of the hospital count with 1,690,000 listings.
How would you go about explaining the difference in the two results? Is it more important to drive a safe automobile than choose a safe hospital? Or maybe all hospitals are safe so we do not need to worry about safety at hospitals. I think you are starting to get where I am going with this line of questioning.
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