[lbo-talk] health care reform = revolution?

[Michael Perelman]

I understood that Japanese life expectancy has a lot to do with diet.  
On a recent Michio Kaku show, he said that Japanese women have the 
highest in the world & that women in Okinawa are the highest in Japan 
-- I doubt that the medical care is better there.

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:33:17AM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> And our outcomes, measured by life expectancy, kinda suck. Our life 
> expectancy is about half a year less than the non-US average. A 
> simple regression of life expectancy on the log of PPP spending 
> (excluding the US) produces a good fit: adj r2 = .69. On the basis of 
> that regression, Americans should live 82.2 years. On average, we 
> live 5 years less than that. Canada's almost right on the nose. By 
> this measure, Japan does very well. We're the worst by far.
> 
> Doug
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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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