Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Mandate

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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

The point is, Reuters is just reporting what a survey group reported, a la Fox, the underlying group has a very specific axe to grind, and the impartiality of their survey is what has to be questioned. Reuters did due diligence by stating the group's bias, but that doesn't suddenly mean that the report has no flaws...

I think there was a difference in what Fox was doing and what Reuters did. First off, the guy who wrote the Fox piece is a psychiatrist. He should have known the study was flawed and that while he wasn't dishonest, he didn't go out of his way to point out the flaws with this. Now, had the guy been a simple reporter, I wouldn't have had as much as issue, but this is a professional in that particular field and should have known better. That's where I think the difference between the two pieces are.

I'll concede the point that yes, there probably are flaws with the US health care ranking as noted in this article.

An Ill-Conceived Health-Care Ranking - WSJ.com


My other issue is with your assertion that the group doing the survey has a axe to grind? What axe do they have to grind? Mind you, this report was done after Obamacare was already passed through legislation. Also, these type of reports have been out long before Romney/Obamacare even existed. Whatever "axe they have to grind" certainly isn't clear.

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Go look at the underlying questions and how the rankings were achieved, then see if it doesn't also have to do with how societies are structured, and what the surveyer are trying to achieve.

We are the most prosperous nation on the planet (well china is) yet we rank as low as we do? I think culture aspects play a bigger part in all of this than does the economics of it. Obesity rates are astronomical in our country and probably plays a huge part in many of our healthcare issues.

What is the surveyor trying to achieve? I still haven't come across anything that would say otherwise. To improve health care in the US? If that's what they are trying to achieve, than that's a good goal to have.