On Apr 30, 7:48*am, Canuck57 wrote:
On 30/04/2010 4:35 AM, bpuharic wrote:



gee. our free market non-socialist healthcare system is so effective
we just dropped from 45th in the world *to 49th. we're now behind
libya!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36853510...e_health_news/

The U.S. lagged significantly behind, dropping to 49th in the rankings
for women and 45th for men. That puts it behind all of Western Europe
as well as countries including Peru, Chile and Libya.

"The U.S. is definitely on the wrong trajectory," said Chris Murray,
director of the Institute for Health Metrics at the University of
Washington, one of the study's authors. "(The U.S.) spends the most on
health out of all countries, but (it) is apparently spending on the
wrong things."

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gee. we spend the most on healthcare, and we DROPPED in quality. libya
now has better healthcare than the US.

aint the free market wunnerful!

Every problem needs a hammer right?

"Koyanagi and Shibuya said it wasn't clear why there were such major
differences among countries in adult deaths."

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Socialism and statism are great as long as someone else pays for it.

The study wasn't even about health care... it was about adult death
rate. While the two are somewhat linked, you can't directly draw a
conclusion about one based solely on a study of the other. Of course
the health care in the US is better than in Libya. The adult death
rate may be higher for any number of other reasons ranging from
cultural factors to obesity.

Saying that it's because of the quality of health care is a false
conclusion, and one that the study did not make. Either buffy doesn't
understand this, or is deliberately trying to mislead us. Nah... he
wouldn't do that, would he?