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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (554078)3/11/2010 12:10:25 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1575601
 
Its been reported over and over again on this thread that health per capita tends to cost less in other countries while life span is longer than in the US.

Adjusted for the fact that we have more car accidents and homicides than most of those countries the US is at least near if not at the top in terms of life expectancy (such deaths lower life expectancy figures much more than the average death since they are more likely to effect younger people).

And there are a bunch of other factors, greater obesity, different lifestyles, genetic and lifestyle factors related to obesity (yes Japanese people live longer than Americans, but Japanese Americans live longer than other Americans as well).

As for the costs, there are many differences in health care in the different countries, the insurance methods are but one, and the other countries don't even have one consistent method. Also their costs are increasing about as rapidly as ours, and some of them are moving to more market based systems to increase quality or to contain costs.
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