[markbnj]

>> Your right, we should ignore statistical evidence and go with your wife's anecdotal evidence.

I didn't offer anecdotal "evidence" of anything. I told a story from a professional who is on the front lines of this fight to illustrate that the numbers of people who die don't make it clear where the pressures on the medical system come from. They come from people needing care, whether or not they die. In fact whether they eventually die probably has little impact on the overall system load. If your statistical evidence, which is really just the odd bits of studies and reports you probably don't fully understand, disagrees with practitioner experience then it's probably wrong.

[TopHand]

From wikipedia- anecdotal evidence is evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony. The third paragraph presents as if you are trying to dispute the statistical evidence that has been accumulated with anecdotal or personal testimony.

[markbnj]

I appreciate your clarification, but no that is not what I was trying to do. My intent, as already mentioned, was to highlight that the mortality rate among various categories of people doesn't tell the whole story.