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If the US has the leading healthcare for the elderly in the world, how come it comes 36th in terms of life expectancy?
by ktizo 15y ago
If the US has the leading healthcare for the elderly in the world, how come it comes 36th in terms of life expectancy?
- adrianN 15y agoBecause healthcare is but one of a zillion factors that influence life expectancy?
- ktizo 15y agoFair point. I still doubt that it is the extra cost of caring for elderly people really well that is the major factor that is keeping the other costs high though. Especially since there are less very elderly people, as a percentage of population, than in other developed countries.
- shingen 15y agoBecause we're also the fattest and least healthy (diet & exercise) of the nations with high per capita income and moderately high life expectancy.
- DanBC 15y agoBecause people have to reach old age before they get "leading healthcare for the elderly"; the ones that don't reach old age cause low ranking in life expectancy charts.