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Kasz216 on 02 August 2011
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thx1139 said:
Kasz216 said:
thx1139 said:
Viper1,

You keep going on about others anecdotal comments. Yet I havent seen you post 1 link to a study supporting your points.

As for Lasik, why wouldn't the cost for a procedure that relies heavily on cutting edge technology (lasers and computers) reduce in cost over time. Most items that are computer based reduce over time. Look at the supercomputer you probably have in your pocket.

Kasz216,

Ezra Klein was 3 of the 13 sources and the major piece from Ezra Klein is just an industry report he provided a link to.


I'm guessing you didn't check out the sources... the meat of the project came all from Erza Klein, or other contributors to his liberal economics blog.

Yes as I pointed out some of them were just industry reports.  Rather than just shrugging off these sources that support the worlds argument that the US doesnt do Healthcare correctly.  Provide some sources of your own that shows how wonderful our healthcare system is.

You are asking for data that is inherently not possible... it's actually near impossible to judge healthcare treatment across society due to the fact that things like surivial rates are effected by far far more then just equality of care.

Example.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/outliers.htm

You may as well try and figure out which twig in a tornado was moved more by blowing into it.  Anyone who actually tells you they can judge healthcare systems across countries (or in a lot of cases, even towns) is blowing smoke up your ass to serve a politcal point.

There are plenty of studies that show "America has the best healthcare system in the world" too... but they're pretty much the same.

You'll never find a good comparison by using meta data.

It's one of the main reasons the WHO stopped comparing healthcare.  (Well that and their methods involved zero actual real healthcare numbers, the closest being life expectancy... which isn't right for a number of reasons.)