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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (1774)	7/31/2007 8:27:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The variance is way too big and you know it. There is more than one variance that where argued in your posts and links. None of them is really very great except cost. When your talking about infant mortality the official rates don't even measure the same thing. Your comparing apples and oranges. When your talking about life expectancy there is a real difference, but the quality of health care is only one of many factors that determines life expectancy. The cost is obviously higher here, there are not adjustments or different forms of measurements that can make that point go away. The cost is obviously higher here. But noting that fact doesn't say anything about the reasons for it. Assuming it has to be because of single payer, when that is only one of many differences strikes me as being evidence of, "buying into a single ideology hook line and sinker".