Five Things I Don't Know About You.

Urban legends are hard to put to rest, especially when statistics are abused.

The U.S. has abysmal infant mortality statistics? Well, not exactly.

The U.S. health care system leads to life expectancies that trail the rest of the industrialized world? Well, kind of, but not exactly.

Here is a very nice myth-busting article by health care expert Christopher J. Conover of Duke University and AEI.