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

To: dybdahl who wrote (18929)	8/24/2010 12:28:13 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

My reaction to that post about cars and obesity was that it might be peculiar to Denmark and countries of similar size and culture. You get a mix of shapes and sizes on the Washington Metro trains but on the buses, particularly during the day, I see a disproportionate number of fat people. I suspect that's because it would never occur to most people well off enough to have cars to ride a bus and poverty and obesity correlate strongly. People who can afford cars who live in the city proper either don't have cars or don't drive them much in town. They take taxis or the train.

To: dybdahl who wrote (18929)	8/24/2010 1:51:15 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If you apply mathematical logic to health care, and only treat based on mathematical logic, most patients would be untreatable. Health care is basically "let's try this and see if it works", and if it seems (!) to work on most patients, keep going. Then all the talk about "science" is just blather? If one considers anti-depressant medications, for example, it is sometimes necessary for the physician to try different medications from a selection to obtain the desired result. But it isn't as though these are total shots in the dark! What many tend to forget, only math can prove something, other sciences cannot. Big Bang is basically just a mathematical model that enables us to deliver new LED colors and stuff, but it is not truth. In the same way, there is no universal truth in health care on which you can build logical conclusions. I think there are some universal truths. We know that, for example, joint replacements can give people enhanced quality of life, although it may not work perfectly for everyone. I don't believe math is the only way to prove something, though. One way, but not the only way. One can repeat a process so frequently with given outcomes to a point that a substantial, essential truth is reached.