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krw

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On Sep 16, 9:01 pm, krw wrote:
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1. Longevity (age at death), infant mortality, morbidity
(incidence of hospitalized disease) etc. The USA usually
ranks about 30th of the 150+ countries in the world.

These are not good indicators of the health care system at all. For
example, infant mortality is biased by the inner-city population who
doesn't seek health care, druggies, and pregnancies that are so
troubled that they wouldn't get as far (or be counted) as birth
elsewhere

Just remind us please which of the other top 30 countries
of the world leave the poorest people out of national
statiistics of infant mortality.

Simple, really. If they aren't born alive they aren't counted.
Often if they don't live for a certain time they aren't counted as
live births. Not all countries spend the resources the US does on the
most premature. You can't use raw statistics like the above to draw
such broad conclusions.

Then why are our life expectancies at one year of age lower than every
other civilized country? and two years of age? and 5? and 10? and 20?
and 30? and 40, 50, 60? But we do catch up at 70, and keep getting
better as you get older.

Murder, bad diet, lack of exercise, primarily.

I don't suppose that could be because geriatric medicine is heroic and
pays extremely well, but the younger you are the more medicine becomes
boring routine and a low priced commodity?

Don't you work for someone with money? You do work?

It's like saying Italy is the foremost automotive manufacturing
company on earth, because people from all over the world come to buy
Ferraris.

Don't be stupid.

--
Keith