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Re:Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is a... by brianjoseff on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:22AM (#19279575)
What is going on with Greece in the first life expectancy chart? Large reversal in cost increase coupled with unperturbed steady increase in life expectancy.

Also has impressive numbers in other charts.

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Re:Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is a... by pjc50 on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:47AM (#19279689)
2008 financial crisis forced drastic cost-cutting.

The question is what the lag on health effects of that was. We know from things like smoking prevention and childhood diseases that the lag can be huge, anything up to half a century.

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Re:Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is a... by nicwilson on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:34AM (#19279628)
Likely to be a delayed time effect, people aren't born and live to 80 in the space of ~15 years.
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