Doing the numbers

(Via Roberta X)

We die in more murders because there are pockets of America where the rule of law and respect for otherwise-accepted norms of behavior are not what they should be. We have more traffic accidents because we have more cars, and drive them further and more often that others. What happens when those deaths are factored out of the data? An interesting thing…

Interesting indeed. It seems that our health care system doesn’t suck nearly as much as the “reformers” want us to believe. Who’da thunk it?

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