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Article comparing health care between UK & US sure to provoke controversy
This study systematically compared health indicators in the United States and England from childhood through old age (ages 080 years). Per capita spending on health care is higher in the United States than in any other country and double that in the United Kingdom. Despite the high rate of spending, adults aged 50 years or older in the United States have significantly worse health status (24) and lower life expectancy (1, 5) than those in England. &c.Be advised this will be used to defend Obamacare. Epidemiology has its uses, I don't think this qualifies. I don't consider Viagra use or the bulk of plastic surgery (as used in the US) to be 'health care', but rather spending on 'recreation' and 'cosmetics'. US Pharma companies are some of the most profitable rent-seekers in world history. Most likely this study lumps all such spending together. The authors mention they will provide sub-study data on request. One sub-study could be eliminating the effect on US health of what I call the 'death zone' in the states of the old Confederacy, whose community health status is typically much, much worse than the rest of the US, for unknown reasons. Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-12 |
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