Lies, damn lies and health care

I am certain that there are lefties everywhere who are trumpeting these statistics that show that the US, with its properly configured free market health care "system", and France, with its dastardly communised medicine, come at opposite ends of the table when measuring medically preventable deaths. These godless socialists will undoubtedly note that the US comes at the bottom of this measure of the world's industrialised nations and claim it as a victory for their side. What they will refuse to see and therefore understand is this is an example of the omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent invisible hand of a free market at work. These health care consumers have freely chosen to die in the manner that they did and therefore the American system is clearly the best on the planet.

(Note: this interpretation may present some philosophical problems for some free-market members of the "right to life" crowd who oppose any form of "voluntary" death (except in the armed forces) but I am certain we can spin out way out of that!)