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Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K by refurb on Sunday July 11, 2021 @10:18AM (#27801023)
Life expectancy is a terrible measure for health outcomes. Too many confounding factors. Americans drive more than other countries, more road deaths. That drags down life expectancy and has nothing to do with healthcare.

Infant mortality is counted differently. The US system will try and save a kid that other system don’t - that’s a death where other systems don’t count it as a life.

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Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K by oliwarner on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:19PM (#27802109)
US road safety is awful, but the numbers of deaths (15 per 100k drivers) is small in absolute terms, 1%. Other accidents count for another 4%.

But physical and mental healthcare plays a major part in the other 95% of deaths.

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Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K by shlant on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @09:24AM (#27820619)
how much of an impact do you think road fatalities and slightly different infant mortality counts has on an entire countries life expectancy? I would wager it does not come close to accounting for the massive discrepancy between the US and every other developed country.
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