Re: [Phys-l] Comparisons are Invidious (was Energy use)

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Possibly even during the special period Cuba had(s) a lower infant  
mortality than the US.  Cuba trains so many doctors they can send  
them to Venezuela in trade for oil and as volunteers to Africa.  This  
is BW's front end?

bc whose first wife got free vitamins, and a nurse visit for Serena  
in addition to not a cent cost at the local maternity hospital while  
I enjoyed a free ** education at Keele, GB.



** Actually more than free.  My demonstrator ship paid half of a  
beginning lecturer and was a sinecure.

bc who sometimes wishes he'd accepted that job offer by the Central  
Electricity Generating Board


On 2009, Apr 08, , at 15:41, Brian Whatcott wrote:

> It's easy to suppose we have the best medical care on Earth - but it
> turns out our life expectancy is rather shorter than that of several
> other nationals, though here it is bought at a unit health cost   
> per GDP
> greater than anyplace else, despite the considerable population  
> holes in
> coverage.
>
> Some others tend to have an unfair advantage in this health care  
> area -
> no matter how poor, they get pre-natal visits and mothers who can stay
> home for the perinatal period.
> That lifts the numbers at the front-end, apparently. Think France,  
> or Canada.