I suppose a few things should be pointed out: 1) ...

2009-08-04T08:13:55.898-07:00

I suppose a few things should be pointed out:

1) Three of the 10 points refers to US cancer treatment. An area in which the US is commonly known to lead the world. That is good, but apparently it was impossible to find a full 10 areas where the US did well?

2) The version posted is a reprint. The original article included references. Although possibly not for the pupose of people actually looking them up, as it turns out that they from suspect sources, or do not actually have anything to do with the subject, or just concludes the exact opposite of what the author claims. I am still a tad shocked that the response to critisim was just to delete the responses when it was next published.
(The author interned in 1982, I personally would speculate that he was not quite onboard with the notion that when writing for the internet, his references can be googled in a minute.)

3) The report was originally produced for the NCPA. It can be found here (With the actual references):

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649

The NCPA is a liberal think tank, whose board includes representatives from health insurance and medical malpractice lawfirms. Their latest report can be found here:
http://www.ncpa.org/files/activities_2qrt09.pdf

There are a number of other problems with the report that the average student should be able to spot. Such as the deliberate selection of Canada for comparisons in waiting times. Canada is known to be the only country in the first world with longer waiting times than the US.
Thus "second worst in the first world" becomes something good.

Finding the rest of the issues this report has is left as an excercise for the students. (Hint: How relevant is the authors background?)

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