But what would Tufte say?

[bcholmes]

Purty graphics comparing and contrasting health care data for different countries.

I was definitely interested in how many more doctors Australia is reported to have.

My colleague wondered why France isn't in the list.

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[elainegrey]

I looked because of your "What would Tufte say?" title, but found myself pondering what conclusion one my draw from Canada's scores if one assumed there was a causal correlation between the first two rankings of quality and timeliness of care and the third of "long useful life." You're better off not seeing a doctor? Somehow Australia's doctor glut seems to point at something else.

I do find myself mulling the "long healthy productive lives" as being a place where cultural biases can hide. How does the US's hobby of putting people in prison affect that rank, i wonder? How does the structuring of the work world affect that? Whose measure of productivity are we talking about?

While i know none of those countries has a single ethnic makeup, is there something in that selection that is looking at Anglo Saxon/Germanic cultual commonalities?

(Where is France and Japan?)

The organization doesn't sound like a group with a conservative agenda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commonwealth_Fund

...ponders...