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0 pointswitty_username9y ago0 comments

Could downvoter(s) explain?

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jdietrich9y ago· 3 in thread

He's literally asking us to disregard the health outcomes for a particularly vulnerable section of society. That strongly implies that these people aren't worth factoring in to our evaluation of a healthcare system, that their health simply doesn't matter.

On a purely statistical level, it makes very little sense. Does he believe that poverty and drug addiction are uniquely American phenomena? Does he believe that the healthcare system has no impact on the number of people with drug addictions or chronic poverty-related diseases?

douche9y ago

On the other hand, if you want to compare the enormous, diverse US to tiny, homogeneous EU countries 1-1, that's somewhat disingenuous as well.

brianwawok9y ago

I'm pointing out that you are comparing apples to oranges.

France is closer in composition to New Hampshire than the US as a whole.

So comparing health outcomes of the US as a whole to France is wrong.

Compare health outcomes of say New Hampshire or Vermont to France....

This is the same mistake the news and popular politicians use to exploit the groupthink. "Look how bad the US is at X compared to this homogenous European country". Be it prison rate or poverty level or what have you.

jdietrich9y ago

>France is closer in composition to New Hampshire than the US as a whole.

Does New Hampshire have any cities where 30-40% of the population are Muslim?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/resentment-growing-christians...

To describe France as homogeneous is utterly, profoundly ignorant.

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