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

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (22171)	8/18/2011 4:37:55 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I noticed you've switched away from survival rates ... which is affected by the health care system to mortality rates which are affected by lifestyle, demographics, diet and many other things.

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (22171)	8/20/2011 2:22:59 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

>> Last place. Not where you’d expect to find the “best” health care system. You seem to be assuming that the quality of the health care system is the best predictor or even a good one. That may or may not be true, but before you can draw the conclusions you seem to making it is necessary to establish that, in fact, it is a predictor at all. The reality is that a health care system can only do so much. The way people eat, drink, sleep, exercise, drive, use drugs, propagate violent crime, and any combination of a number of other factors may be more solid predictors. A health care system cannot blindly be relied upon to solve all problems related to health care. It has to work within the parameters of the society it is trying to treat.