Saturday, January 9, 2010

More evidence that the canard about American healthcare not being best.

http://tinyurl.com/yb2kr36
Where U.S. Health Care Ranks Number One
Isn't 'responsiveness' what medicine is all about? By MARK B.CONSTANTIAN
...Time pictured President Obama in white coat and stethoscope. The story opened: "The U.S. spends more to get less [health care] than just about every other industrialized country."...The comparative ranking system that most critics cite comes from the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO). The ranking most often quoted is Overall Performance, where the U.S. is rated No. 37. The Overall Performance Index, however, is adjusted to reflect how well WHO officials believe that a country could have done in relation to its resources. The scale is heavily subjective... (see prior Yoda blogs on this subject)

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