Quote:Interestingly people in Australia and Canada live longer.

I would argue that has little to do with your actual healthcare, and a lot to do with how you handle junk/processed food. The US has made it extremely cheap to eat bad (we subsidize bad food basically), and as a double whammy allow lots of pesticides that the rest of the developed world doesn't. We spray our food with known tetratogens and probable carcinogens right before harvesting. So we have a less regulated food chain (well its reverse regulated actually, the big companies pick and choose what they want like Monsanto). This is really an aside tho.

 

I am not arguing that Americans live longer than other nations, they don't. I will argue that it is not due to healthcare that they live less. Other countries, I think, tend to eat better, and exercise more.  Its the lifestyle and culture, they eat less red meat, they have better quality food, and make better choices on the whole. Canada's healthcare system rationing care at end of life didn't make their average higher, rather it was everything before that point that improves it.

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