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To: combjelly who wrote (353420)	10/3/2007 1:48:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 1574028

My claim is that our deaths due to car accidents isn't high enough to counter deaths due to suicide to make the difference in life expectancy in many of those countries with a higher life expectancy. If its only the countries with high suicide rates that the US does worse then then the whole argument about US life expectancy being bad because of our health insurance system falls apart. It only has any strength at all because the US does worse in this stat than most very wealthy countries, not just those with the highest suicide rates. Also as I already pointed out suicide and car accidents are just two of many factors. The whole assumption that different life expectancies are solely or even primarily because of difference in the basic forms of how health insurance is provided in different nations is faulty. It really doesn't even make sense to make the comparison after adjustments because there are too many factors to reasonably adjust for, and because the adjustments are larger than the portion due to different health insurance. If you have one clear primary factor, than you can adjust for other factors, but you don't have one clear primary factor here.

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