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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Webster Groves who wrote (22187)8/27/2011 5:21:35 PM
From: TimF   of 42652
 
I never took "new math" in school, so I don't understand adjusted rates. I just look at the real numbers.

First you have to establish that the numbers are accurate, are comparable (they measure the same thing in the same way) and are relevant and meaningful.

If you try to say that the system of health care payment is significantly "better" in one country than in another, and you use statistics like life expectancy and infant mortality to support your claim, you only have solid support if you can either show that the difference in numbers from each country is almost completely due to the difference in health care payment systems, or you have to find all the other significant factors and adjust for them. The problem with such an effort is that it would seem that those stats are not primary determined by how health care payments are conducted, and that there are so many things that could effect the stats that it would hard to even identify all the important factors let alone accurately adjust for all of them.
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