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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Paul Kern who wrote (105722)3/9/2009 5:12:29 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 541759
 
The World Health Organization's ranking
of the world's health systems.

For that to be useful you have to consider and support their criteria and weighting. They have a lot of cats and dogs in theirs, things like literacy and the privacy of records. My criterion would be which system offers the best chance of a favorable outcome in critical medical scenarios. Where would you have the best chance of surviving and retaining an acceptable lifestyle in a hypothetical car crash, for example, of if you have a history of early heart attacks or breast cancer in your family, or get bitten by a poisonous snake. Not that the other stuff isn't important, only that those factors are either peripheral and minor or uncertain proxies for measuring outcomes.

As for any system that makes it illegal for patients to seek medical care outside the national system, that's so morally repugnant it gets an automatic failing grade from me.
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