<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 5:38 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div><br></div></span><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Be honest Dan, if the 30 single payer countries I mentioned spent twice as much on healthcare as the USA and yet their citizens had shorted lives than the USA would you be complaining about </font></div><font size="4"> sampling errors<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> and</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>experimental<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> bias? We both know you wouldn't. </div></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### John, you keep repeating this stuff as if it mattered.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a conundrum for you: People often die in the hospital or right after discharge. So, wouldn't it make sense to just close all hospitals in order to keep people living longer?</div><div><br></div><div>If you can think your way through this puzzle, you will be on your way to noticing the irrelevance of that statistic of yours.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal </div></div>
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