Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ...
by WoodenChair on Sunday October 21, 2018 @05:23PM
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Life expectancy is not a simple proxy for quality of health care. Exercise, diet, happiness, genetics, disaster propensity, and many cultural factors have an impact on life expectancy.
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Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ...
by twic on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:45PM
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Compare specifically to the UK then - we get no exercise, have awful diets, are miserable, have a more inbred version of US genetics, fucking love self-inflicted disasters apparently, and are culturally mostly indistinguishable from the US. And yet, despite the fact that we spend a fraction of what you spend on healthcare, have a couple more years' life expectancy.