https://freerepublic.com/tag/healthoutcomes/ en-us Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:36:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313071/posts June E. O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill address the NHI issue by comparing Canada's publicly funded, single-payer health care system to the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system.31 They argue that differences between the United States and Canada in infant mortality and life expectancy -- the two indicators most commonly used as evidence of better health outcomes in Canada -- cannot be attributed to differences in the effectiveness of the two health care systems because they are strongly influenced by differences in cultural and behavioral factors, such as the relatively high U.S. incidence of obesity and of accidents and homicides. Direct... NBER Reporter Online https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313071/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:36:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1083073/posts WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 — The Bush administration says it improperly altered a report documenting large racial and ethnic disparities in health care, but it will soon publish the full, unexpurgated document. "There was a mistake made," Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, told Congress last week. "It's going to be rectified." Mr. Thompson said that "some individuals took it upon themselves" to make the report sound more positive than was justified by the data. The reversal comes in response to concerns of Democrats and the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee. They are pushing... NY Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1083073/posts#comment Sun, 22 Feb 2004 06:42:39 GMT