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Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ... by WoodenChair on Sunday October 21, 2018 @05:23PM (#18270342)
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.
Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ... by twic on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:45PM (#18270799)
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.
Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ... by Latteland on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:22PM (#18271452)
And by almost any measure we are no better than and frequently behind other western democracies in healthcare.