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To: TimF who wrote (64297)	4/3/2018 2:17:39 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364393

Agree totally. Health care statistics of any kind are a really complicated business, and comparisons among countries is insanely challenging. It makes these statistics excellent political weapons, though. The so-called "Harvard Study" of medical bankruptcy is a great example, but nothing like the often cited (now almost 20 years old) WHO Report from around 2000. Where a parameter for "access" was (a) inappropriately weighted, very heavily, to suggest that Americans who did have access, didn't; and (b) landed the United States in overall health care in 38th place, right behind Costa Rica -- a joke, when you consider the overwhelming majority of all the world's health care innovation at that time was either done in the US or at least financed by US companies. Even in narrow contexts I find it hard to make heads or tails out of most health care statistics (statistics for treatment outcomes can be more rational, but often are all over the place which I think contributes to physician's conservatism).