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To: tejek who wrote (551799)	2/24/2010 2:37:04 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1575396

If there is no correlation between the cost of our health care and longevity No one suggested there was no correlation. I believe there is one. It just that other factors are very, probably more, important in determining life expectancy. Things like and violence rates, which are not determined by the health insurance system have a fairly strong affect on life expectancy since they take out young people not just old (if someone would otherwise have lived to 80, their death at 20 impacts life expectancy much more than them dieing at 78 would). Also there are ethnic/genetic differences (Japanese people live longer than average Americans, so do Japanese Americans, and to a similar extent), diet differences, and other factors. Spending more probably does increase our life expectancy above what it otherwise would have been, but probably not by a huge amount. Whether or not its cost effective depends on how much you value extra life expectancy time. And life expectancy changes are hardly the only benefit we get from from medical care.