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

To: Road Walker who wrote (11427)	11/17/2009 2:44:21 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

No bending over backwards at all, just pointing out the facts of the situation. As for "no data to prove the US has the "world's best health care system". - There is also no data that proves it doesn't have the best. Not that I'm necessarily arguing it is the best (at least if you include costs, drop costs as a consideration and I might make that argument), just that whether it is or isn't, one shouldn't really expect comprehensive evidence in favor of that idea. (Also even if there was such a study, and there may be one I'm not aware of, it wouldn't be very meaningful, probably not even as a matter of politics, almost definitely not in terms of really being solid evidence.)

To: Road Walker who wrote (11427)	11/17/2009 4:26:15 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Gee, our cancer survival rates are pretty high and if you adjust life expectancy figures for accidental deaths and homicides, our life expectancy is number one. Sounds pretty good to me.

To: Road Walker who wrote (11427)	11/17/2009 5:28:06 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

You are sure bending over backwards to explain why there is no data to prove the US has the "world's best health care system". There are no data to prove the US has the best system. But easy analysis will demonstrate that the ranking should be higher than it is. I think a more apt comparison would leave us in the top ten, at least. But there's no way to do the computation so it's just a guess. I suspect that no one really thinks that there is evidence that the US system is best. Seems to me that such claims are mostly an over-reaction to the unfounded low ranking that keeps getting publicized.