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Dec 12, 2008
A recent CATO briefing discussed a flawed and over-referenced report from the World Health Organization (WHO), which ranked the U.S. 37th in the world on health care. The WHO based their rankings on an index. Yet only two factors of the five used in the index are based on health outcomes. The other 3 factors are based on inequality of outcomes.
Here is a glaring example from Glen Whitman of the flawed logic in these measurements: Suppose country A has uniformly poor health care responsiveness, and country B is 50% good and 50% excellent. Country B is obviously the better choice for health care but it would rank lower than country A on the WHO index because it has a greater inequality.
Charlie Sauer is a legislative assistant with the National Center for Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C.
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Helium
December 12th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Glad to see this pseudo study getting its comeuppance.
December 13th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
I agree with Bruce.