No filibuster, you linked to hundreds of charts, obviously a serious response is going to be pretty long. As it is I've analyzed only a bit more than a third of them.
The professionals doing the studies had no trouble.
They had a lot of trouble, whether they realize it or not, actually measuring quality, since at least for the most part that isn't what they did. Which isn't a bash against them, its almost impossible to broadly, reliably, and with detail to directly measure quality.
If you look hard, I'm sure you can find a few more where the US does pretty well.
I'm sure I could, but that wasn't what I was looking for.
We're #1 in knee replacements, is that good? But we're a distant #2 in the number of MRI machines a stat that a few on this thread was clearly in our corner.
On both measures I guess the US does well, but that's not really a measure of quality, its a measure of how many operations are done. That's related to quality comparisons if some of the countries you are comparing have people suffer from having too few operations done, but if the countries that do a lot perform unnecessary operations to any great extent then doing more might be a negative. Also it isn't an analysis of the quality of the replacements, only their number. |
