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To: Brumar89 who wrote (550818)	2/18/2010 5:17:55 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) of 1575300

??? Based on a RW blogger who doesn't link his references..... He talks about eliminating gang banger murders but doesn't say anything about eliminating the 20,000 (?) deaths due to guns in this country or the 200,000 deaths due to medical mistakes in hospitals.... And you continue to hang your opinion on Aunt Tillie stories.... The link below was just published in January, 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine...I think it's more reliable than the "Grouchy Old Cripple"... "Ranking 37th — Measuring the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System" "Despite the claim by many in the U.S. health policy community that international comparison is not useful because of the uniqueness of the United States, the rankings have figured prominently in many arenas. It is hard to ignore that in 2006, the United States was number 1 in terms of health care spending per capita but ranked 39th for infant mortality, 43rd for adult female mortality, 42nd for adult male mortality, and 36th for life expectancy.3 These facts have fueled a question now being discussed in academic circles, as well as by government and the public: Why do we spend so much to get so little? Comparisons also reveal that the United States is falling farther behind each year (see graph). In 1974, mortality among boys and men 15 to 60 years of age was nearly the same in Australia and the United States and was one third lower in Sweden. Every year since 1974, the rate of death decreased more in Australia than it did in the United States, and in 2006, Australia’s rate dipped lower than Sweden’s and was 40% lower than the U.S. rate. There are no published studies investigating the combination of policies and programs that might account for the marked progress in Australia. But the comparison makes clear that U.S. performance not only is poor at any given moment but also is improving much more slowly than that of other countries over time. These observations and the reflections they should trigger are made possible only by careful comparative quantification of various facets of health care systems."

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