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Andrew Barss

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From: Andrew Barss <ba...@mint.u.arizona.edu>

Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 23:51:30 +0000 (UTC)

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Subject: Re: OT: How is Canadian health care worse than US again?

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Francis A. Miniter <famini...@comcast.net> wrote:

: One measure of the effectiveness of a health care system is
: the average life expectancy of the citizens of a country.
: By that measure, Canadians live to be about 80.3 years old
: (14th in the world) and Americans to be about 78 years old
: (45th in the world).

I wonder how much that figure is skewed (as it almost often
is in these reports) by differences in infant mortality, which
are about 50% higher in the US than Canada
(6.37/thousand in US, 4.63 in Canada).

So, if one counts just people surviving infancy, the difference between
countries is somewhat smaller than the life expentacy numbers suggest.
I wonder how much the Canadian advantage is.

-- Andy Barss

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