Posted on 08/27/2009 5:59:33 PM PDT by moneyrunner
The Virginian Pilot propaganda machine for ObamaCare sputtered into high gear, reminding me of one of those ObamaClunkers headed for the dealer to be replaced by a nice shiny Toyota. Under the guise of providing facts vs. fiction the half-assed editors apparently rewrote a press release from Team Obama using data gathered by WHO (The World Health Organization).
Unfortunately, the remaining employees of the much-shrunken Virginian Pilot are not very bright, they are no longer believed and their evidence is simply belied by people’s experience. In fact, the editors, in an attempt to paint the worst possible picture of US medical care do themselves and their propaganda a disservice by making it appear as if the US is a medical hell hole, to be shunned by Americans who should be getting their medical care in Poland or Greece.
Yet somehow foreigners seem to be coming from these places with their much vaunted “cheap and better” health care for doctors and hospitals in the United States. So the flurry of statistics is neither believable not convincing.
For a better explanation of where these phony numbers come from, it’s useful to get someone who knows something ...
(Excerpt) Read more at moneyrunner.blogspot.com ...
Let me guess... they use child mortality statistics didn’t they?
Every country counts them different. I’ve heard that in Cuba a child isn’t officially counted until after it lives 3 days. Every country does it different, so its hard to compare statistics.
Read that Steyn column about how these stats lie, like life expectancy.
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/2356/99/
and there is a mises thing about Soviet healthcare that mentions the child mortality thing
http//www.mises.org/story/3650
This is the other article with the child mortality stuff (countries measure it different)
bump
I am thankful I ended my subscription to the Virginian Pilot nearly half a decade ago.
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