WHO health care report badly flawed.

[AztecWilliam]

Those on the Left are huge fans of the United Nations and all its activities. But here is an example of how the UN, in the guise of the World Health Organization, does much more harm than good.

In fact, World Health Report 2000 was an intellectual fraud of historic consequence—a profoundly deceptive document that is only marginally a measure of health-care performance at all. The report’s true achievement was to rank countries according to their alignment with a specific political and economic ideal—socialized medicine—and then claim it was an objective measure of “quality.”

Notice especially how life expectancy is calculated.

www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-worst-study-ever/

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[aztecwin]

There is very little about WHO or the UN for that matter that I like and this points out just another problem.

Now this passage from the report is particularily troubling.

"Correction, it turns out, was the goal." “The object is not to explain what each country or health system has attained,” the authors declared, “so much as to form an estimate of what should be possible.” They appointed themselves determinants of what “should” be possible “using information from many countries but with a specific value for each country.” This was not so much a matter of assessing care but of determining what care should be in a given country, based on WHO’s own priorities regarding the allocation of national resources. The WHO report went further and judged that “many countries are falling far short of their potential, and most are making inadequate efforts in terms of responsiveness and fairness.”

[billhammett]

What a great article...I have spoken on the topic of Healthcare Reform to close to a hundred groups since March 23rd, 2010 and have had to debunk the WHO's report every time. Another example of the numbers not actually representing the truth is infant mortality. In the U.S. they count babies that die at birth...in almost every other country the eliminate those deaths from the calculations.

Thank you AztecWilliam for this post.