Re:The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills
by chimeracoder on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:08PM
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> And yet the UK life expectancy is 81.2 vs 79.3 in the US.
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. [Treatable] cancer isn't the leading cause of death in any country[0], so no matter how good (or bad) a country is at treating cancer, you wouldn't expect that to be visible in the overall life expectancy rates.
[0] Ordinally, cancer is #2, but that includes untreatable cancers, and the tail is very long, so getting better at improving five-year survival rates for cancers won't budge your life expectancy at all, outside of the margin-of-error.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...