[Vision2020] Health Care

[Tony]

Attention Visionaires!  It has been established that the moon is made of 
green cheese!  I have the corroborating source somewhere here on my 
desktop.....  Hmmmmm, well, no matter.  Just trust me!  Studies have shown 
it.  Experts have testified to the fact.

Incredible huh?

-T
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nickgier at adelphia.net>
To: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Health Care


> Greetings:
>
> I thank Andreas for pointing out that malpractice awards make up a small 
> percentage of our health costs, as they do in all countries.
>
> But if they really are the reason why other countries do so much better 
> than we do, then why is it that it is only Australia that has lower 
> average malpractice awards than we do?
>
> In 2001 the Australian average was $97,014; the U.S., $265,100; Canada, 
> $309,417; and the United Kingdom, $411,171.
>
> By the way, as a scholar who has lived by blind review for over 30 years, 
> I made up all these figures, all the numbers in all my previous columns, 
> and everything that I published since 1970.  And I fooled every single one 
> of those reviewers!!
>
> Ready at hand on my desktop is updated health statistics from Organization 
> of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that all industrialized 
> nations report to; the latest data from the World Health Organization 
> (WHO); the Spring, 2006 and Summer, 2000 issues of the Journal of the 
> American Medical Association; CIA World Fact Book (2005); 2002 Report from 
> the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; website of Centers 
> for Disease Control and Prevention; the National Center for Health 
> Statistics; and Advocates for Youth at www.advocatesforyouth.org.
>
> Yours for accuracy,
>
> Nick Gier
>
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