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

To: TimF who wrote (8561)	8/21/2009 3:19:37 PM
From: Archie Meeties	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Tim, I did a straight comparison between the US and Germany, France, Canada, using the exact same metrics and definitions. We compare badly to those countries with socialized medicine in infant mortality. If you want to say it's 45% or 55%, not 50%, be my guest. If you plug those numbers in it changes the result an imperceptible amount. Just curious, but doesn't it seem to you that you're trying to find tiny flaws in the data so as to support your bias? I mean, if I used 100% then we'd still fare worse. At a minimum, given that we are paying far far more, shouldn't our infant mortality be far superior?