Good Series of Posts on HC Quality

Defining quality is the "holy grail" in health care. Here is a series of posts looking at it in the US:

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/how-do-we-rate-the-quality-of-the-us-health-care-system-introduction/

Two surprising findings: Japan is more CT and MRI crazy than we are. Also the US does not have an inordinate amount of specialists.