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

To: Road Walker who wrote (11349)	11/16/2009 3:39:17 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

if we did truly have the best overall system, there would be stats SOMEWHERE to prove it There are only a handful of widely recognized international rankings, and none of them are by people who seem to have any interest at all in showing the US is the best. No so much that they necessarily are anti-US, but the groups putting out the rankings seem to support the idea of greater government action in health care. That interest does not work as an argument that their rankings are wrong (even a biased person can be right) but would explain enough that "there are no overall rankings showing the US as number one" isn't much of an argument, esp. considering the low number of rankings, and the poor methodology of the one that I've seen enough information about to analyze. Also if one assumes or concludes that the US is worse in some way, that isn't the same as providing evidence for single payer, or the house bill or any other version of health care "reform".