"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Mismeasure of Measuring Health Care
"The index (for ranking health care systems) is deliberately set up to make tax financing look good, direct out of pocket expenditures look bad, inequality of treatment is as important as the actual level of treatment: and then people express surprise that the US system, which violates all of those implicit rules, looks bad?" By Tim Worstall.
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