Name:   CRD - Subject:   Sans Google Trump likely won the popular vote Date:   8/24/2019 4:02:30 PM

Retrospective studies, which can be associated with bias by their very nature, are very, very valuable studies when you attempt to control confounding variables, which these authors valiantly tried to do.  Your dismissal of the retrospective nature of this study means that you also would tend to dismiss too numerous to mention retrospective studies in the healthcare fields that often are precursors to valuable prospective studies which you and I benefit from every day. Not to mention the classic 1926 retrospective study describing risk factors for breast cancer.

Just because gov't healthcare is offered according to you,, in every "civilized country in the world", does not mean that civilized, compassionalte healthcare that exists in the US is equally offered.  Two vitally different distinctions and if you want me to enlighten your world to the absolute discrepancies, we can talk about, lets say for starters, acute treatment of a subdural hematoma in an individual 65 yrs of age in the US and in the UK.  When do you want to begin?