Quote Originally Posted by robuzo View Post
The God in the Machine - Lapham’s Quarterly
"Americans in 2007 paid $7,421 per capita for healthcare as opposed to $2,840 paid by the Finns and $3,328 by the Swedes, but life expectancy in the United States is not as long as it is in thirty other countries, among them Finland and Sweden; the first-year infant-mortality rate in the United States is higher than it is in some forty other countries, among them Slovenia and Singapore. A newborn child stands a better chance of survival in Minsk and Havana than it does in New York or Washington."
You really need to be carefull with statistics. Comparing Sweden to the US is tricky. They don't have nearly as many illegal immigrants or blacks as the US. The may sound racist, but if you remove those groups from calculations on many subjects, you will find things even out. I have noticed this on childrens performance in school, and I'm sure it would apply here as well.