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To: tejek who wrote (551555)	2/22/2010 6:01:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575167

Nothing to explain away if all your presenting is the chart. I don't have any reason to think the data in it isn't accurate. If your trying to combine it with an argument than there might be something to explain. I'll do it for you since you failed to actually make one, there is a risk of being seen as attacking a straw man when your providing someone else's argument, but I'm really sure this is at least close to your point. Your argument is that the US spends more without having a longer life expectancy, (the US is about in the middle on that chart, and below some countries that spend a lot less), so supposedly the other health care insurance systems must be better, or at least much more cost effective. The answer to that life expectancy is not primarily determined by the health insurance system. Its not like the set up of the health care insurance system is irrelevant to life expectancy, it does have an effect, but the correlation is hardly overwhelming, and there is no evidence that is a very important cause of the difference in life expectancies.