That "panacea' of socialized medicine in Australia creating'equality' in universal health service? Damning statistics of aboriginalpeople say NO! "Universal care' doesn't work there either
Expectation of life
In 2009, the ABS revised its estimates for expectation of life at
birth for Indigenous people [2]. After adjustment for the
underestimate of the number of deaths identified as Indigenous, the
ABS estimates that Indigenous males born in 2005-2007 could expect to
live to 67.2 years, 11.5 years less than the 78.7 years expected for
non-Indigenous males (Table 6). The expectation of life at birth of
72.9 years for Indigenous females in 2005-2007 was almost 10 years
less than the expectation of 82.6 years for non-Indigenous females.
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