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Monday, August 20, 2012

Universal Mediocrity: Why do Britons like their sub-par health-care system so much?

Popular satisfaction vs measures of actual achievement.

The average Briton is unlikely to know that the NHS ranked worst for five-year survival rates in cervical, breast, and colon cancer.  By contrast, the average Briton knows that if he suffers a heart attack, he will be taken to the hospital and connected to a lot of machines, from which he concludes that he is having the best possible treatment.

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