The Commonwealth Fund's Selective Reporting on Health Care Systems

Digging into the data on comparisons of health care systems across countries.

One topic that never gets old is comparisons between the health care systems of various countries. On November 3, 2005, the Commonwealth Fund issued a press release about one of its studies. I examined both the press release and the study at the time and found that the press release cherry-picked data to make the U.S. system look bad by comparison with …