Inconvenient truth: Americans have highest life expectency in world!
September 26, 2009
No really. If you remove obesity and homicide from life expectancy data Americans have a SIGNIFICANTLY higher life expectancy than any other developed country. Of course we are really fat – more twice the number of obese people in Canada and ten times that of Japan. Ouch. Homicide and obesity are NOT a health care issue. The Allysia Finley from the Wall Street Journal has an interesting article that points out that Obama’s assertion that “We spend one and a half times more per person on health care than any other country, but we aren’t any healthier for it” isn’t true. Health care reform or insurance reform can’t make us skinny or prevent us from murdering each other. Today we spend more on health care than any other developed country because we are able to borrow the money from China. As a result we are the healthiest people in the world. Money = Health. Health Reform = Less Money.
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If you remove those from our life expectancy rate, then we must remove them from every other country’s to make a fair comparison. Taking those out, however, is misleading – and convenient to your argument, because they are real aspects of life expectancy. Obesity is a health care issue, even if it isn’t a disease. We spend a much higher ratio on health care than all other countries with close to or better life expectancy rates. That’s a big problem, especially if you do not have or cannot afford health insurance. Altering facts is dishonest (propganda).
Comment by Ryan — September 26, 2009 @ 8:07 pm
The premise of the article is true — people like Michael Moore are conveniently assuming the inputs into the relative health care systems are the same.
Comment by Ryan — September 26, 2009 @ 11:22 pm