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To: tejek who wrote (346536)	8/15/2007 9:21:06 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575310

"In The Business of Health, Robert Ohsfeldt and John Schneider factor out intentional and unintentional injuries from life-expectancy statistics and find that Americans who don't die in car crashes or homicides outlive people in any other Western country." Tim, Tim, Tim.......to my knowledge no one has made claim that its simply American health policies that's at fault; the American lifestyle is killing us as well. Is killing us, is a bit much to apply in such a universal sense, its not like our life spans are not increasing, but yes our lifestyles and decisions have a bigger impact on our health than the differences in health care between the US and Europe or Canada. The important point is that the whole argument about how health care in Europe is "proven" to be better because of higher life spans and lower infant mortality is bogus. The infant mortality is measured differently, and the US's isn't worse when you measure it the same way. And the life spans are not lower in the US when you control for factors that are not part of the health care system.