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CoyoteBlog on Health Care
The CoyoteBlog explodes the methodology of a recent study which appears to show that the health care system in the U.S. is significantly worse than other developed countries. One choice tidbit: I have a very smart reader group, so my sense is that many of you already see the gaffe here. The author’s (sic) posit that 50% of heart disease may be due to lifestyle, though the number might be higher or lower. So to correct for this, they reduce every country’s heart disease number (IHD) by a fixed amount of 50%. WTF?? This corrects for NOTHING. All this does is reduce the weighting of IHD in the total measure. LOL! Of course, methodology is unique to each study, so you can’t go … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Health Care, junk science
Quick Hits
If gold is such an anachronism, why do governments maintain such large stockpiles of it? ++ Who knew that the Unions are in favor of national healthcare? Union members and outside experts said the UAW will have difficulty keeping its commitments unless the federal government has a national health care system within 5-15 years. Always looking out for their members, everyone else be damned. ++ Egypt is trying to copyright pyramids “in an attempt to get paid from the sale of replicas…” Even if you are inclined to accept traditional arguments in favor of Intellectual Property (i.e., the inventor/creator’s right to profit from his time and effort), this is utterly absurd. Egypt, a sovereign country, is trying to claim a copyright on something that they basically found, which merely by accident happens to lie … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Democracy is Great!, Health Care, Potpourri, Strikebusting
Critical Illness Insurance and Socialized Health Care
In July 2007 issue of Best’s Review, if you have a subscription, you’ll find an article called “Critical Care,” which discusses the current and potential future market for critical illness insurance, either as a supplemental rider to an existing health insurance policy or as a stand-alone. One comment that struck me as odd appears on page 88: The United States is caught in a catch-up game when it comes to critical illness sales. Great Britain, Australia, Ireland, Japan and Canada have had much success in the market, “Those socialized medicine countries have been successfully selling it as a ‘don’t die on a waiting list’ type of insurance.” My question is this: Are we really “lagging behind” if there’s simply no market for a “don’t die on a waiting list” policy in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Health Care, Seen and Unseen