In an earlier article I used infant mortality and longevity as 2 indicators of healthiness of a population. Recently there has been some discussion over the infant mortality rate aspect of this measure. So I thought I’d revisit the infant mortality statistic. As you will shortly see it seems I reached a correct conclusion... »
The health care debate is the topic on many TV and Radio news and commentary shows and unfortunately many of them keep rehashing the same arguments and, to my mind at least, are not advancing the general discussion. One example comes from a recent ABC News “This Week” episode where the Right’s “Death Panels”... »
In an earlier article we examined how the US health care system fares in comparison to the world. This comparison was aimed squarely at free market statistics, namely supply and demand. Supply was measured by the number of doctors per capita and demand was measured by dollars of health care spending per capita. We... »
The website Recovery.org is an excellent site to track the status of the stimulus spending. Recovery.org is brought to us by Onvia.com and appears to be a public service tool that coincidentally also highlights the sort of services Onvia provides. The graph below was pulled from their website in late June/early July and so... »
