Master Betty wrote:
"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
...
How Freudian. You liberals tend to suffer from Pension Envy.
Next thing, you'll want to marry your mother. Conservatives
see success and want to imitate it. Liberals see success and
want the government to punish it.



Worth it?

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

Sigh!

Progessives (i.e., Paul Krugman) like to front this report from the World
Health Organization. The methodology used to create the report is so flawed,
however, that the report has been debunked countless times. These
criticisms, from health organizations such as the American Public Health
Association, have been so severe, that even WHO gave up on creating this
report in 2000.

The WHO report relies on DALE [Disability-Adjusted Life Expectancy] and this
skews into the sunset all manner of statistics. For example, consider South
Africa which has the finest health system on the continent and was the site
of the world's first heart transplant! The WHO study ranks South Africa
175th out of 191 countries!

How did South Africa get such a low ranking in the WHO study?

AIDS.

And the prevelance of AIDS and its effect on mortality has almost NOTHING to
do with the health care delivery system or its cost - or at least it didn't
in the decade leading up to 2000.

No, the WHO study is a decade out of date and, even when it was current, was
bunk.