Original Message: ----------------- From: Trent Shipley [email protected] Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:19:16 -0700 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: The Role of Government in a Libertarian Free Market
> Obama, yesterday, was right on target when he said there was no single > silver bullet for this problem. But, we do know things can be better, > because we are paying twice as much as the average developed country per > person with worse than average results. >I have heard, but have been too lazy to confirm, that there is a GDP per >capita health care spending curve, and as a very affluent country the >USA is almost right where it should be on that predictive model. Well, the curve would have to be a specially shaped curve for that to be true. In 2 minutes I found: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004ra nk.html and https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004ra nk.html Note how Norway per capita GDP is 20% higher than that of the US, yet it's percentage of GDP spending on health care is only 58%. Looking further we see that it's infant mortality rate is just of half of the US's, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate and its life expectency is 19th in the world compared to the US's 45th http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy I've been to Norway many times and know a number of Norwegians. It's government is one of the more socialistic governments in Europe and is far more intrusive in the ecconomy than the US's. I can't do a scatter plot here, but, if you did a polynomial fit that predicted this, you would need as many orders as data points. :-) So, with only 5 minutes of work, I have pulled up data falsifying this propaganda. Dan M. Dan M. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
