Understanding the Issues 2008: Health Care

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Originally Posted by firstdown

I was reading that one of the reasons that we rank low in allot of the heath issues around the world is because we have better record keeping of how and whay people die. Take a third world country. When a cild dies most of the time the child is put to rest and no records of the child are recorded so it is very tough to compare us to them. So those stats are very skewed.

Umm, you're mostly being compared to first world countries unless you count the likes of Sweden and Japan as third world countries. Even if you drop the third world countries the US would still be trailing many European countries and developed nations.