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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (16468)4/8/2010 5:53:44 PM
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You can't just look at the numbers, you have to look at what they represent and how they are obtained.

The infant mortality figures are not calculated the same way across the world.

Deaths from hospital mistakes or diseases caught in hospitals may not be calculated the same way either, and whether or not the calculation methods are the same, the numbers are not low in any country that has sufficient medical intervention to create the possibility for significant hospital caused deaths.

For the first problem we generally get numbers for different countries but no explanation about how the measurements are different. For the 2nd we don't usually even get international comparisons, just condemnation of the US because of a number provided with no context.
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