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To: tejek who wrote (359942)	11/27/2007 3:00:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575422

Germany went through its expensive reunification 17 years ago. And yes one of the entities was poor, but that means for the East your measuring growth from a lower baseline. Once you remove the communist economic control from a nation its quite possible to get more rapid growth from this low baseline as the economy sheds the restrictions that where holding it back. Yes you never said that longevity was a perfect proxy for economic well being of a country, but you used it as if it was. Why is it you choose the UK with which to make your comparison? I had all the data together for the UK. Also it has perhaps the most socialist health care system in the developed countries, because health care, not just insurance is provided by the government. I didn't have to look for all of it. I think I can get it for Canada as well. I had enough for most of the rest of Europe to make it seem reasonable to conclude that their natural life spans aren't longer, but not to nail it down solidly. Japan probably does have a longer life span even after adjusting for accidents and homicide, if you also adjust for their larger suicide level. Maybe Scandinavia does as well. The rest of Europe probably not. The UK certainly not.