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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
do you think anyone is implying that?
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No one is implying anything, what a few are saying is that stats like this don't matter if we have nothing to compare them to.
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and yet you title the thread "We're number 37!! We're number 37!!"? that isn't what you were saying at all.
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"There are many instances"
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you're referencing your own original post where the measurement was gauged in "fairness."
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Nope, i'm referencing my original post where the measurement was gauged in "overall health care performance."
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i see what you're getting at, but it's a combination of a sidestep and a backtrack. if you'll read any dissenting post on this thread you'll see that no one is completely happy with the status quo... so don't pretend that anyone is.
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How am i backtracking? I though that you were throwing out all statistics that don't involve some sort of comparison. I was pointing out how silly that is.
No one is happy with the status quo, but many are happy as long as we can't compare our failings to anyone else.
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the dissenters are frustrated that you would present this data as valuable in revealing the real nature of the problems we face when it is clearly flawed.
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What, do the dissenters want a peer reviewed essay about each and every flaw? If that's what you think i owe you with this thread, than i'm sorry to break it to you, but i was just trying to point out that our country isn't exactly god's gift to the world.