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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (348070)8/30/2007 5:35:23 PM
From: TimF   of 1577535
 
"System wide" doesn't mean they measure the same things. In the case of infant mortality they don't. More importantly it doesn't mean adjusted for factors that have nothing to do with the health insurance system. Differences in the way the health insurance system is set up in a country isn't the main, let alone the sole cause of differences in life expectancy.

Also other "system wide" numbers like cancer survival rates, make the US look better. Of course there may be other differences besides better medical care for cancer patients that are decisive here, so it wouldn't be reasonable for me to argue that this is proof that our system is better, but it would be about as reasonable, perhaps more so, than the attempt to use unadjusted infant mortality and life expectancy figures to argue the opposite.
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