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To: bentway who wrote (502097)	8/6/2009 5:07:25 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573927

So if you have unsafe sex with hookers and dopers, lie about it and sell your blood, it means we have a bad health care system that socialism can fix.

To: bentway who wrote (502097)	8/6/2009 6:08:27 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573927

>> How long a person lives is one measure of his health. I agree. But taken alone it is a meaningless one. You have to get very deep in the analysis of the regression/correlation data to understand this. There are probably 100s of variables that are more representative measures. The fact of the matter is that the WHO is discredited, and with good reason. If you boil it down, it takes into account a perceived variable, which has no real meaning -- that is, the egalitarianism of the systems. That is, the WHO rates health care systems that treat everyone similarly above the systems that provide better overall treatment for almost everyone (which is what our system delivers). If EVERYONE doesn't receive that same level of superb treatment, WHO discounts the quality of the overall system. This, of course, is not a sensible approach -- because it is the superb treatment of that 85% that ultimately yields better treatment for the remaining 15%. Complicated subject. I don't think you can understand it.