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To: tejek who wrote (349053)	8/30/2007 10:46:27 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573902

Your post is barely coherent. When you come up with a real argument let me know. In the meantime some more data on life expectancy. re: "Interesting observations, but are these observations anecdotal or do you have any links which have data." Not anecdotal...here are the number that gets the greatest publicity: Life expectancy at birth of All Americans: female: 79.8 male: 74.4 (2001) female: 80.1 male: 74.8 (2003 est) ~15% uninsured at some point during a year. here's a sharper breakdown... Asians Japan Life expectancy at birth: total: 81.15 years (2005 est.) female: 84.61 years Male: 77.86 education.yahoo.com Asian American life expectancy at birth: total: 81.5 (2001 numbers) female: 84.22 years Male: 78.03 (1990 numbers) est. 18.4% Asians and Pacific Islanders were uninsured in 2002. ncapaonline.org ssc.wisc.edu; intelihealth.com Hispanics Estimated life expectancy at birth Cuba (women) 79.2 male: 74.7 Spain (women)82.9 male: 75.6 -page 165; Health, United States, 2005; US Department of Health and Human Services; CDC; National Center for Health Statistics and GAO gao.gov Estimated life expectancy at birth hispanic Americans female 83.0 male: 77 years 33.4% of Hispanics in America were lacking health insurance at some point in the first half of 2004 intelihealth.com Whites Estimated life expectancy at birth non hispanic whites USA female: 80.3 male: 75.1(2002) 10.1 % of non-Hispanic whites were without health insurance coverage between Jan - Jun 2004 (15.9% of non-Hispanic blacks) England and Wales: female: 80.6 male: 76.0 (2001) Germany female: 81.3 male: 75.6 (2001) Ireland female: 79.7 male: 74.7 (2001) Scotland female: 78.8 male: 73.3 (2001) National Center for Health Statistics Health, United States, 2005 with Chartbook on trends in the Health of Americans Hyattsville, Maryland 2005 cdc.gov Message 22143910