Country A has a single-payer health care system and Country B has a system of so
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Question
Country A has a single-payer health care system and Country B has a system of socialized medicine. The residents of Country A have a longer life expectancy at birth, longer life expectancy at age 65, a lower infant mortality rate, and a lower risk of dying from cancer before age 75 than the residents of Country B. Assuming that the data described above is accurate (that is, there are no data collection problems leading to false differences between the two countries), is it safe to assume that Country A’s system of health care is superior to Country B’s system, and leads to better health outcomes?
Explanation / Answer
ans.This cannot be assumed at all that country A's health system is superior to country B's health system such statement is extremely wrong. Even when there is no discrepancy in the data but there can many otherfactors of the difference in life expectancy. Maybe country A as such has favorable climate due to which life expectancy is much more or genetically country A may do better. Thus we should never compare the health care system just on the basis of one factor.