[extropy-chat] health

[Tark]

Damien, 

 

You miss the point by trying to refute, take the passion of the politics
away for a moment. There are many variables in every country that make life
expectancy alone an inaccurate measure of the efficacy of the health care
system. There are so many variables beyond those complexities in the health
care system itself that you must use multiple sets of complex data to arrive
at best assessment or comparison. (think about how to measure "golden hour
infrastructure effectiveness" alone) If you make the argument socialized vs
free-enterprise systems, you lose real purpose and jump to a solution. 

 

Life expectancy is not just a function of health care systems, and it's
specious to argue that it is.

If you want to improve life expectancy, then you should look at life style,
diet, location, culture, health care infrastructure, risk averseness,
infrastructure, climate, and energy.

 

To sum up, yes I would prefer health care in Canada, Sweden, or Australia to
that which I might find in Los Angeles, but I wouldn't trade the health care
I get where I live now near Kansas City for any of the above. If you want to
live long, your personal choices are one of the biggest determinants in the
equation.

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