Re: [A-List] Re: French Pension Strike

[freak <freak1090210@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just for the record, women are more than twice as likely to die
giving birth in Europe than north america.

This list has many great aspects, but people here are better
than most at spinning facts to suit their purpose.  For instance
Henry's recent comment about someone he didn't like being guilty
of poor basic maths skills.  While earlier he neglected a simple
calculation by multiples of 10 because it made his argument
sound better.

WHO stats:
http://www.wpro.who.int/themes_focuses/theme2/focus3/trends/trends1.htm

--- "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@jmu.edu> wrote:
>      Just for the record, last year the World Health
> Organization rated France as having the world's best 
> medical care system, high quality but reasonably
> affordable and available to all.
>       OTOH, the US has the highest percent of GDP spent on
> medical care, but is embarrassingly far down the lists on such
> things as life expectancy and infant mortality rates.  But, of
> course, we are attempting to impose our system on others.




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