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> Cancer and heart disease outcomes are the best proxy for how well a health care system operates. Maybe for you. There are plenty of other fundamental measure
by danharaj 11y ago
> Cancer and heart disease outcomes are the best proxy for how well a health care system operates.
Maybe for you. There are plenty of other fundamental measures of health care quality, like infant mortality rate.
- merpnderp 11y agoWouldn't infant mortality rates have a lot more to do with prenatal care in industrialized nations? I doubt more kids in the US are dying because of a lower standard of care and more likely because of more drug addicted/alcoholic/poorer nourished moms. Using infant mortality as a proxy in an industrialized nation is just hacking the stats. If you don't think such things matter, then explain how Hispanic women on the west coast have both the lowest access to health care and also the lowest death rate from cancer? DNA? Diet? Low stress? Could be. But either way, their exceptionally low cancer rates don't reflect upon the US health care system.