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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (8457)8/19/2009 8:00:11 PM
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Life expectancy is a reasonable factor to consider because a good part of it is a function of health care but the data needs to be adjusted for factors outside the control of the health care system if you want valid data.

This I can agree with.

If you get rid of the factors that aren't "health care" then life expectancy would be a relevant measure.

But the importance of it, with objective statistical analysis, isn't going to be anywhere near the weighting that was ultimately given by the WHO and it is NEVER going to be valid when cited as a standalone statistic as though it were a gold standard.

Personally, I think the set of variables you would have to consider to come up with to explain health care quality in a meaningful way would have to be huge. At least 100s. And a lot of them would be very tough to quantify.

For that reason, I think common sense is probably as good a measure as these studies that exist. The weightings assigned in the WHO study are so superficial as to be meaningless.
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