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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9977)	10/8/2009 9:47:10 PM
From: TimF	3 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

...In 2007, economists June O’Neill and Dave O’Neill of the National Bureau of Economic Research released a study titled ‘Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S.‘ In the study, they pointed out that “a multitude of behaviors unrelated to the health care system such as substance abuse, smoking and obesity” are connected “to the low birth weight and preterm births that underlie the infant death syndrome.” Moreover, they “show that the efficacy of health care systems cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant mortality and life expectancy:” "In fact, our calculations indicate that if in Canada the distribution of births by birth weight was the same as in the U.S. their infant mortality rate would rise to 7.06 from the observed level of 5.5. Similarly if births in the U.S. had the same distribution by birth-weight as Canadian births, the U.S. infant mortality rate would have been 5.401 instead of 6.85." Much can be done to reduce infant mortality rates in the US. But methods to improve this problem lie outside the realm of the present health care debate. freemarketmojo.wordpress.com