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Is my understanding of this sentence correct ? Please comment. I got below sentence from dictionary "The Health Service should not be judged by financial criteria alone." Does it mean if we want to know if this health service is good or bad , we can't just check its financial situation is sound or not. Am I right ??? Please comment. Thank you.Hi , thanks for your comments. I got some ideas from your answers. Very useful. One more question , in your opinion , which one country's health service is the best in the world ?? Thank you.

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No. It refers to the way we should see our health service, how we should define it, etc. We should not define the health service by financial criteria alone. There are other aspects that are important for a health service when determining government policy.
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Probably that is not the intended meaning. Health services are judged on the basis of cost, quality, and availability. The word "financial" might be used in that context. Then we would like to know about quality and availability. It's extremely difficult to give each country a number, but Japan may have the best system. See www.who.int/healthinfo/paper28.pdf
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I think the point is, "You cannot say the health system is good just because it has a lot of money invested in it". The quality, standard of healthcare, opinion of the people, makes a healthcare system good.
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In my understanding,there may be a meaning:Even the goverment have invested a bunch of money , that don't mean that the health service would be the optimal one.An optimal heatth service include not only the financial investment , but also the quality of service,cost,technology,health equity,government policies,etc.but the most important factor is that whether all of its ordinary citizens have the ability to affort anything necessary when one get sick.
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Yes I think you are right in your understanding of the sentence.

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