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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) by Alex3917 on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @11:50AM (#20345361)
30%+ of all medical spending in the U.S. is wasted, so one doesn't really have anything to do with the other.
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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) by User23 on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:27PM (#20345835)
And then on top of that doctors in America kill somewhere between a quarter and a half million people per year[1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading...

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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) by himeexcelanta on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @11:58AM (#20345453)
Do you have a source for that?
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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) by Alex3917 on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:04PM (#20345532)
http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2012/Best-Care-...
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