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Every other report I've seen on this new study emphasizes how horrible the US healthcare industry is, yet the Times puts a positive spin on it. Other accounts have stressed high costs due to overuse of high tech, and to administrative costs in the private insurance sector, as well as the US's continuing poor outcomes. But Sanger Katz ignores virtually all the metrics described in the article in which the US is at the bottom. See link to study itself in the article. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/upshot/united-states-health-care-resembles-rest-of-world.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com