I was not questioning your conclusion. I agree that the US healthcare system sucks. I was only commenting on the Japanese outlier.
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 12:15:11PM -0400, 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
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