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Thomas Reilly's avatar

As far as I can see they also didn’t test for a difference between passive and active smoking - just assumed they were different because one result was significant and the other was non significant. Despite having overlapping confidence intervals.

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andy.carey@uwclub.net's avatar

I can do you a nice epidemiological meta analysis in 10 hours. People who live in places with single payer health systems are fatter than those who live in universal health systems based on co-payments by the patient or SHI. And that imposes a cost on the societies with single payer systems in terms of lack of incentives and responsible behaviours.

Furthermore every country with a single payer system has dropped down world league tables of prosperity, but correlation ain't causation so maybe there's another underlying cause like say collectivism as a government philosophy.

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