Lies, Dammed Lies and Health Care Statistics

Weekly Standard/The Lid ^ | 9/12/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

The President and his liberal democratic supporters love to throw statistics out at their opponents, those 47 million without insurance that mysteriously became 30 million during the Wednesday night speech is just one example.

Obamacare supporters throw out numbers that try to show that the US Health care system is on the lousy side. For example the World Health Organization (WHO) rated U.S. health care 37th in the world in 2000, behind Andorra, Malta, Colombia, Cyprus, and Morocco and just ahead of Slovenia and Cuba. This is absolutely true. Of course included in the WHO methodology are ideological socialist type of ratings such as "fairness of pricing" and "responsiveness distribution"

When you look at pure survival statistics, what happens to people who get Ill, American Health Care is the best system in the world, despite what you will hear from the ruling party:

[Bhoy]

Thanks. Good summary.

[True Republican Patriot]

A Must Read for Everyone! We have the WORLD’S BEST MEDICAL CARE when You Look at the Real Facts and NOT Liberal/Socialist/UN Propaganda!..... Thank you muchly...:-)