| haxxiy said: I don't know from where people get free medical care is free. Otherwise insurance indemnity is free money too. Just a side note on those political euphemisms... It would be better to find beforehand the reasons behind the insanity below. Yeah, someone once even tried to argue they are the best physicians on the world and shit, but still a blatant rip-off:
Perhaps if the american health system wasn't twice as expensive as other developed countries, including an almost 65% increase during the last thirteen years (when average incomes actually fell), people wouldn't make such a fuss over it. |
Eh, i'm generally not a big fan of charts like this because it tends to ignore numerous confounding variables.
US life expectancy is lower then most other countries, but generally this isn't related to healthcare reasons.
The US for example leads other countries in such things as homicides, car accidents, drug addictions and preamture births due to child pregnancy.
Just about the only nonheatlhcare life expectancy measure the US isn't all the way in the back on is Suicide.
In short, the best ways to increase US life expectancy aren't actually related to healthcare. It's getting rid of the majorheadwinds our healthcare system is facing.
Second best is actually healthcare related but only tangentally. It's basially "find ways to get people to act healthier".
