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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (2837)	11/12/2007 6:16:30 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

Well if that's true it would seem to point to diet as the main reason, but I think my original statement was true - Old data - "For example, Japan's average life expectancy (78.6 years) is one of the highest in the world, about three years higher than that in the U.S. If the three-year difference were the result of lower-quality health care in the United States, you would expect Japanese-Americans living in this country to experience shortened life spans. They don't. According to the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging, in 1980 (the latest numbers available) white Americans had an average life expectancy of 76.4 years, while Japanese-Americans had an average life expectancy of 79.7 years" ncpa.org Slightly newer data - "b. Japanese American men in Hawaii have been found to have longer life expectancy than any other known population. They have, for example, longer life expectancy than men living in Japan, which has the longest of any major country (Curb et al, 1990)." stanford.edu More - "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." nationalcenter.org "» Asian Americans, average per capita income of $21,566, have a life expectancy of 84.9 years." starbulletin.com --- And finally some post 2000 data 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 from This post Message 22143910 on the Intel thread which also compares other ethnic groups in the US to similar groups in other countries