Tuesday, January 8, 2008

AMENABLE MORTALITY ... WE'RE DEAD LAST (NO PUN INTENDED)


Remember President Bush's challenge that before we “start griping about the health care system here ... compare it with other systems around the world”? Well, guess what ...

By way of Kevin Drum we find that when it comes to deaths that are "potentially preventable" - what's called "amenable mortality" - the United States is dead last in a group of 19 countries.

Increasingly, in more and more areas it appears that the best health care in the world is not here. I wonder why that is ...

- Mark

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