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Life expectancy is not a simple proxy for quality of health care. Exercise, diet, happiness, genetics, disaster propensity, and many cultural factors have an im
by WoodenChair 8y ago
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.
- twic 8y agoCompare 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.
- Latteland 8y agoAnd by almost any measure we are no better than and frequently behind other western democracies in healthcare.