Health Care
Cancer Survival
There’s been a new talking point in the health care debate in the US; the cancer survival rate. Many bloggers (site, site, site, and site) and research institutes have discussed the results of a 2007 article in the medical journal Lancet Oncology that compared cancer survival rates in several different countries. The blogs and... »
Health and Infant Mortality
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... »
OpEd: The Nature of the Health Care Debate
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”... »
Health Care In the District of Columbia
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... »
Health Care: US vs World
As the Obama administration prepares to reform health care in the US, there’s relatively little news coverage comparing the US system to other similar countries around the world. If indeed the US were planning on going alone and creating new health care system unheard of anywhere else the cause for skepticism would be completely... »
Rush Limbaugh, Exercise and Health Care
Recently Rush Limbaugh claimed that “exercise freaks” are running up the cost of health care. Audio and a transcript of his quote are below. I think those of you that regularly exercise — playing softball, baseball, basketball, soccer, mountain biking, running, rock climbing, skiing, skating, running — you’re the people getting injured. You’re the people... »
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