Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits

Re:Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care br... by monocasa on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:19PM (#16979094)

> From your own link, which is a press release by the firm which sponsored the research:

I mean, it's the Rand Corporation. It's not like it's some fly by night 'you pay us and we'll say whatever you want' firm. The link to the real study is right there.

> Incidentally, those are three of the four main issues for which people typically criticize the VA.

That statement was for the whole study, including the private side. Once again, the VA publishes quite a bit of this information, when was the last time you saw average wait times for the private side?

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Re:Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care br... by chimeracoder on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:50PM (#16979462)

> I mean, it's the Rand Corporation. It's not like it's some fly by night 'you pay us and we'll say whatever you want' firm.

...okay? The point is that the primary reference itself shows that the study isn't relevant to this conversation at all: by its own account, it doesn't attempt to investigate the issues that we're talking about. It doesn't attempt to study the issues that make the VA a bad model for healthcare (and have since the 60s).

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