Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> That and other things, no doubt. The point is that we spend a shitload
> of money on health care, far more than anyone else in the world, and end
> up with fairly mediocre outcomes. It may be because so many of us are
> fat and sedentary. It may be that we have so many poor people. It may be
> that our diet sucks. It may be alienation and stress. It may be all
> those things.
>
> Doug
> ___________________________________
I've always felt the primary reason was likely the American penchant for gouging each other, and then excusing it under the banner of a "free marketplace" and/or pointing to what the buyers (patients) are willing to pay. Naturally, when it comes to quality of life, (indeed, life or death), they're going to pay a lot.
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