Claim: The Wall Street Journal's "Numbers Guy," Carl Bialik, takes a deeper look at a well-worn statistic: that the U.S. ranks 37th in the world in health system performance. His conclusion: WSJ's Bialik, Oct. 21: Among all the numbers bandied about in the health-care debate, this ranking stands out as particularly misleading. The No. 37 figure comes from a 2000 World Health Organization report that attempted to grade nations' health care according to five factors and assign an overall ranking to each.
Fact-check: 37th in Health Performance? - FactCheck.org
Verdict: the wall street journal's "numbers guy," carl bialik, takes a deeper look at a well-worn statistic: that the u.s. ranks 37th in the world in health system performance. his conclusion: wsj's bialik, oct. 21: among all the numbers bandied about in the health-care debate, this ranking stands out as particularly misleading. the no. 37 figure comes from a 2000 world health organization report that attempted to grade nations' health care according to five factors and assign an overall ranking to each.
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Lori Robertson
Date published: 2009-10-21T18:17:16