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To: DavesM who wrote (109559)	4/16/2005 11:41:59 AM
From: JohnM	of 793689

If we change our medical system to more like the British or Germans, how much can we really expect the average American lifespan to increase? Nice points, Dave. We certainly don't know the answer to that question. The immediate question that comes to mind, however, is still that, given your first sentence, taking into account the totality of our population, not simply the non-Hispanic, US life spans are shorter and we pay a great deal more. I'm not arguing (don't know what Krugman is arguing) that we should simply go straight to some other system. Rather we should see these numbers as serious criticisms of the way we are doing health care now and explore other options. My own preference would be for single payer systems with universal coverage. But how much of the American lifespan is a function of our medical system, our diets compared to other nationalities, or how much is a function of who our parents are? That's a tough question and not answerable in any serious way with the data you have on the table. My guess is there are more than a few serious studies out there that address that issue. And a rather large research literature.

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