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To: tejek who wrote (323844)	1/31/2007 10:52:08 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1576448

They countries have many differences other then their "more socialistic lifestyle". Try controlling for ethnic background, dietary habits, exercise, and numerous other factors and see if you get the same difference. Also my data was from 1997. Americans average life expectancy has increased since then, but I figured the relationship between the life expectancy of different groups would not be substantially different, and I couldn't quickly find a source that had all the data I needed from a more recent year. The most recent data for overall American life expectancy is 77.8 or .7 years more than white life expectancy in 1997. I don't have the data broken down by race but if whites have maintained the same gap over other Americans then white life expectancy would be 78.4, or close to the German figure. -- Also see nationalcenter.org or if you don't want to bother reading the whole thing I'll include a couple of quotes for you "Comparisons of distinct ethnic populations in the U.S. with their country of origin find similar rates of life expectancy. For example, Japanese-Americans have an average life expectancy similar to that of Japanese." "One study found that about one-third of the difference between white and African-American life expectancies in the United States was accounted for by income; another third was accounted for by personal risk factors such as obesity, blood pressure, alcohol intake, diabetes, cholesterol concentration, and smoking and the final third was due to unexplained factors.13 Another study found that much of the disparity was due to higher rates of HIV, diabetes and hypertension among African Americans.14 Even studies that suggest the health care system may have some effect on the disparity still emphasize the importance of factors such as income, education, and social environment.15 A plethora of factors influence life expectancy, including genetics, lifestyle, diet, income and educational levels. A health care system has, at best, minimal impact. Thus, life expectancy is not a statistic that should be used to inform the public policy debate on health care."