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To: Road Walker who wrote (350337)	9/12/2007 11:09:55 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573439

You presented the data, but you never really made much of an initial argument around the data. You never presented any reason to think that the difference in life expectancy is solely or even primarily because of differences in health insurance systems. Your argument is something like 1 - Countries with higher life expectancies have a better health insurance system than countries with similar or greater wealth who have lower life expectancies. 2 - France, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan etc. are not wealthier than the US, but have higher life expectancy. Therefore France, UK, Germany, Canada, Japan etc. have better health care insurance systems than the US. The problem is that you never establish the first premise. Another problem is that even if the conclusion is true, it doesn't necessarily follow that single payer (or directly socialized medicine such as in the UK) is the feature that makes their health care system better at producing longer life spans.