The Wall Street Journal’s "Numbers Guy," Carl Bialik, takes a deeper look at a well-worn statistic: that the U.S. ranks 37th in the world in health system performance. His conclusion: WSJ’s Bialik, Oct. 21: Among all the numbers bandied about in the health-care debate, this ranking stands out as particularly misleading. The No. 37 figure comes from a 2000 World Health Organization report that attempted to grade nations’ health care according to five factors and assign... Click to Read the Full Post
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