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To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (489531)	6/21/2009 12:28:50 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 1571840

>> of 18 industrialized countries US is last or 18th in average healthy life expectancy Please don't go there. I get really, really tired of having to explain the intuitively obvious fact that life expectancy has little to do with the quality of health care and lot more to do with things like the per-capita number of fast food joints, cigarette consumption, miles driven per year, alcohol consumption, and hundreds or thousands of other factors that are at least as important as health care quality. Think about more pertinent criteria like the per-capita number of providers and imaging centers, the survival rates for particular cancers and other diseases, etc. These are the relevant metrics, not life expectancy. Why can you guys not see this rather obvious fact? but we need to treat people for outcomes not to make money. There may be some level of outcome-based treatment that is appropriate but the reality is that physicians cannot be accountable for the way Americans choose to live their lives. If you do that you're not going to have enough physicians to go around.

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