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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (7716)	7/23/2009 6:03:20 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation of 42652

I would think mortality rates from the disease in question should be the gold standard... Dunno. Many/most cancers will kill you eventually if you don't die from something else first. So it's just a matter of timing which year's statistic a given death falls into. I think that not taking into account how long it takes is a flaw. Also corrupting the mortality rate for cancer would be that different populations would have different mixes of curable and non-curable cancers. So mortality rate would work better for each individual type of cancer than for cancer, in general. You can hardly blame the Ukranian health care system for their Chernobyl mortality rates or equatorial countries for melanomas. I stand by my assertion that there is no gold standard, only flawed proxies.

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