That 'panacea" of Socialized medicine in Sweden

On 2/12/12 19:26, in article
, "BeamMeUpScotty"
wrote:

You fail to recognize freedom as part of the medical care.


That is built in with the French system, freedom from worrying
how to pay for medical bills. I suffer from an incurable lung
disease which will eventually kill me. The Secu has assigned
me special status, 100% coverage. So I don't pay anything for
the 600 euro a month for the oxygen I must have.

"Planet Visitor II" wrote in message
news
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:03:23 -0500, "Sid9" sid9@ bellsouth.net wrote:


"PJ O'D" wrote in message
...
On Dec 2, 9:39 am, "simon calder"
wrote:

"While Sweden has long taken pride in its public healthcare system,
lengthening queues and at times inconsistent care have prompted many
Swedes to opt for private healthcare with many gaining the benefit
through insurance policies offered by employers, currently
responsible
for 80 percent of healthcare insurance market.


It STILL has a state funded system for healthcare.....


"...lengthening queues and at times inconsistent care have prompted
many
Swedes to opt for private healthcare...."

So?
They have choice and no Swedes go without care

Private healthcare is capitalism.... not socialism.



Planet Visitor II

Your labels don't mean a thing to the patient receiving the care

On Dec 3, 7:22Â*am, ПеаБраин wrote:
On Dec 3, 5:36Â*am, AliASS wrote:

In Spain, health care is FREE
for*everyone*.
AliASS
Â*.
"FREE" for*everyone*?
. Â* Â*.
Yes.
-- AliASS

.
..

Yes, FREE.
.
Well..........yeah.......... if you don't count all the OUTRAGEOUS TAXES
that the Euro-commies pay. Â*Talked about duped sheep..... they think
things are "free" but pay those taxes happily... Â*LOL! Â*Dumbasses.

.

. How's that copay working out for you? How
about your deductibles?

Â*--

AliASS

See, It's really all about the bucks with these Commie/ Socialist
dumbASSes,

Â*Somebody else somewhere else has to pay down to that very last cent
for services and then they think it's "free"

Geeez! Unbelievable! Greedy Selfish Parasitic *******s!.

On Dec 3, 4:48*am, "simon calder"
wrote:
. I suffer from an incurable lung
disease which will eventually kill me. The Secu has assigned
me special status, 100% coverage. So I don't pay anything .

*Sorry to hear about your illness...... can you imagine if you were in
merkin land though...?

Check out the per capita rate of lung transplants US vs, France. I did
once to enlighten the Socialist, American ex-pat, Evleth, but google
should be able to help you retrieve it also.

That should give you an idea of the rationing inherent in your Euro
style Socialized medicine schemes but like Evleth, I doubt you will be
able to relate to it let alone admit it due to your religious- like
fanatacism.

It should also give you an idea as to why we American might chose to
spend a portion of our greater per capita GDP on more advanced
medical techniques than your Your-A-PeonSocialist brethren but I
doubt you will be able to perceive that either.

On Dec 3, 7:58*am, AliASS wrote:


In Spain, health care is FREE
for*everyone*.

AliASS
* .
"FREE" for*everyone*?
. * *.
Yes.
-- AliASS
..
...

Yes, FREE.
.


See, It's really all about the bucks with these Commie/ Socialist
dumbASSes,

* Somebody else somewhere else has to pay down to that very last cent
for services and then they think it's "free"

We pay for it with our taxes.
AliASS

AliASS finally admits he lied still again when he stated healthcare
is FREE for EVERYONE in Spain.

On Dec 3, 8:16*am, "simon calder"
wrote in part:

....hell, they can't even tell the difference
between "commies" and "socialists" ....what f*ckin chance have you got
moving the discussion into intellectual debate...?

Communism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Communism

"Communism (from Latin communis - common, universal) is a
revolutionary socialist movement...." (first words of first sentence)

If you think the Wiki definition is wrong, Calder, they encourage
correction of errors and good luck with changing their definition.

Let us know how you make out with changing that wiki definition,
Calder.

On Dec 3, 8:01*am, AliASS wrote:


I have a friend who saw his inheritance fly right to the hospital. When
all was said and done, there was no more money
--
AliASS

Your friend, like you are, is a financial illiterate, AliASS.

Hospital bills are not collateralized . Therefore, no assets would be
at risk for non payment.

If the hospital bills were simply ignored and not paid, the worst
that could happen to your friend is his mother's credit could be
affected negatively .

And even there some hospitals don;t even bother to report non payments
to credit bureaus due to the large volume of uncollectibles
and the clerical effort involved in reporting them

On 3/12/12 15:47, in article
, "PJ O'D"
wrote:

Hospital bills are not collateralized . Therefore, no assets would be
at risk for non payment.



Why all the bankruptcies?


Medical bills prompt more than 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies - CNN
articles.cnn.com/.../bankruptcy.medical.bills_1_medical-bills-bankruptcies-h
ealth-insurance?_... - En cache - Pages similaires
5 Jun 2009 ... Bankruptcies due to medical bills increased by nearly 50
percent in a six-year
period, from 46 percent in 2001 to 62 percent in 2007, and most ...

. I suffer from an incurable lung
disease which will eventually kill me. The Secu has assigned
me special status, 100% coverage. So I don't pay anything .

*Sorry to hear about your illness...... can you imagine if you were in
merkin land though...?

Check out the per capita rate of lung transplants US vs, France. I did
once to enlighten *the Socialist, American ex-pat, Evleth, but google
should be able to help you retrieve it also.

That should give you an *idea of the rationing inherent in your Euro
style Socialized medicine schemes but like Evleth, I doubt you will be
able to relate to it let alone admit it due to your religious- like
fanatacism.

The proof is always in the pudding: Sweden and 36 other Marxist
countries are ahead of the U. S., some so poor they don't have a
single carrier group.

Life expectancy at birth (years)[4] Rank state/territory Overall Male
Female

1 Japan 82.7 79.0 86.1
2 Hong Kong 82.2 79.4 85.1
3 Israel 82.0 80.0 84.0
4 Italy 82.0 79.4 84.5
5 Iceland 81.8 80.2 83.3
6 Australia 81.2 78.9 83.6
7 Singapore 81.0 79.0 83.0
8 Spain 80.9 77.7 84.2
9 Sweden 80.9 78.7 83.0
10 Macau 80.7 78.5 82.8
11 France (metropolitan) 80.7 77.1 84.1
12 Canada 80.7 78.3 82.9
13 New Zealand 80.2 78.2 82.2
14 Norway 80.2 77.8 82.5
15 United Kingdom 80.1 78.1 82.1
16 Austria 79.8 76.9 82.6
17 Netherlands 79.8 77.5 81.9
18 Martinique ( France) 79.5 76.5 82.3
19 Greece 79.5 77.1 81.9
20 Belgium 79.4 76.5 82.3
21 Malta 79.4 77.3 81.3
22 Germany 79.4 76.5 82.1
23 U.S. Virgin Islands ( US) 79.4 75.5 83.3
24 Finland 79.3 76.1 82.4
25 Guadeloupe ( France) 79.2 76.0 82.2
26 Channel Islands ( Jersey and Guernsey) ( UK) 79.0 76.6 81.5
27 Cyprus 79.0 76.5 81.6
28 Ireland 78.9 76.5 81.3
29 Costa Rica 78.8 76.5 81.2
30 Puerto Rico ( US) 78.7 74.7 82.7
31 Luxembourg 78.7 75.7 81.6
32 United Arab Emirates 78.7 77.2 81.5
33 South Korea 78.6 75.0 82.2
34 Chile 78.6 75.5 81.5
35 Denmark 78.3 76.0 80.6
36 Cuba 78.3 76.2 80.4
37 United States 78.2 75.6 80.8
38 Portugal 78.1 75.0 81.2
39 Slovenia 77.9 74.1 81.5
40 Kuwait 77.6 76.0 79.9
42 Barbados 77.3 74.4 79.8
43 Brunei 77.1 75.0 79.7
44 Czech Republic 76.5 73.4 79.5
45 Réunion ( France) 76.4 72.3 80.5
46 Albania 76.4 73.4 79.7
47 Uruguay 76.4 72.8 79.9
48 Mexico 76.2 73.7 78.6
49 Belize 76.1 73.3 79.2
50 New Caledonia ( France) 76.1 72.8 79.7
51 French Guiana ( France) 75.9 72.5 79.9
52 Croatia 75.7 72.3 79.2
53 Oman 75.6 74.2 77.5
54 Bahrain 75.6 74.3 77.5
55 Qatar 75.6 75.2 76.4
56 Poland 75.6 71.3 79.8
57 Panama 75.5 73.0 78.2
58 Guam ( US) 75.5 73.3 77.9
59 Argentina 75.3 71.6 79.1
60 Netherlands Antilles ( Netherlands) 75.1 71.3 78.8
61 Ecuador 75.0 72.1 78.0
62 Bosnia and Herzegovina 74.9 72.2 77.4
63 People's Republic of China (mainland) 74.8[5] 72.4 77.4
64 Slovakia 74.7 70.7 78.5
65 Montenegro 74.5 72.4 76.8
66 Vietnam 74.2 72.3 76.2
67 Malaysia 74.2 72.0 76.7
68 Aruba ( Netherlands) 74.2 71.3 77.1
69 Macedonia 74.2 71.8 76.6
70 Syria 74.1 72.3 76.1
71 French Polynesia ( France) 74.1 71.7 76.8
72 Serbia 74.0 71.7 76.3
73 Libya 74.0 71.7 76.9
74 Tunisia 73.9 71.9 76.0
75 Venezuela 73.7 70.9 76.8
76 Saint Lucia 73.7 71.8 75.6
77 Bahamas 73.5 70.6 76.3
78 Palestinian territories 73.4 71.8 75.0
79 Hungary 73.3 69.2 77.4
80 Tonga 73.3 72.3 74.3
81 Bulgaria 73.0 69.5 76.7
82 Lithuania 73.0 67.5 78.3
83 Nicaragua 72.9 69.9 76.0
84 Colombia 72.9 69.2 76.6
85 Mauritius 72.8 69.5 76.2
86 Saudi Arabia 72.8[6] 70.9 75.3
87 Latvia 72.7 67.3 77.7
88 Jamaica 72.6 70.0 75.2
89 Jordan 72.5 70.8 74.5
90 Romania 72.5 69.0 76.1
91 Sri Lanka 72.4 68.8 76.2
92 Brazil 72.4 68.8 76.1
93 Algeria 72.3 70.9 73.7
94 Dominican Republic 72.2 69.3 75.5
95 Lebanon 72.0 69.9 74.2
96 Armenia 72.0 68.4 75.1
97 El Salvador 71.9 68.8 74.9
98 Turkey 71.8 69.4 74.3
99 Paraguay 71.8 69.7 73.9
100 Philippines 71.7 69.5 73.9
101 Cape Verde 71.7 68.3 74.5
102 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 71.6 69.5 73.8
103 Samoa 71.5 68.5 74.8
104 Peru 71.4 68.9 74.0
105 Estonia 71.4 65.9 76.8
106 Egypt 71.3 69.1 73.6
107 Morocco 71.2 69.0 73.4
108 Georgia 71.0 67.1 74.8
109 Iran 71.0 69.4 72.6
110 Indonesia 70.7 68.7 72.7
111 Thailand 70.6 66.5 75.0
112 Russia 70.3 64.3 76.4
113 Guatemala 70.3 66.7 73.8
114 Suriname 70.2 67.0 73.6
115 Honduras 70.2 66.9 73.7
116 Vanuatu 70.0 68.3 72.1
117 Trinidad and Tobago 69.8 67.8 71.8
118 Belarus 69.0 63.1 75.2
119 Moldova 68.9 65.1 72.5
120 Fiji 68.8 66.6 71.1
121 Grenada 68.7 67.0 70.3
122 Federated States of Micronesia 68.5 67.7 69.3
123 Maldives 68.5 67.6 69.5
124 Ukraine 67.9 62.1 73.8
125 Azerbaijan 67.5 63.8 71.2
126 North Korea 67.3 65.1 69.3
127 Uzbekistan 67.2 64.0 70.4
- World Avg. 67.2 65.0 69.5
128 Kazakhstan 67.0 61.6 72.4
129 Guyana 66.8 64.2 69.9
130 Mongolia 66.8 63.9 69.9
131 Tajikistan 66.7 64.1 69.4
132 Western Sahara 65.9 64.3 68.1
133 Kyrgyzstan 65.9 62.0 69.9
134 Bhutan 65.6 64.0 67.5
135 Bolivia 65.6 63.4 67.7
136 São Tomé and Príncipe 65.5 63.6 67.4
137 Pakistan 65.5 65.2 65.8
138 Comoros 65.2 63.0 67.4
139 India 64.7 63.2 66.4
140 Laos 64.4 63.0 65.8
141 Mauritania 64.2 62.4 66.0
142 Bangladesh 64.1 63.2 65.0
143 Nepal 63.8 63.2 64.2
144 Solomon Islands 63.6 62.7 64.5
145 Turkmenistan 63.2 59.0 67.5
146 Senegal 63.1 61.0 65.1
147 Yemen 62.7 61.1 64.3
148 Myanmar 62.1 59.0 65.3
149 Haiti 60.9 59.1 62.8
150 East Timor (10% below world average) 60.8 60.0 61.7
151 Ghana 60.0 59.6 60.5
152 Cambodia 59.7 57.3 61.9
153 Iraq 59.5 57.8 61.5
154 Gambia 59.4 58.6 60.3
155 Madagascar 59.4 57.7 61.3
156 Sudan 58.6 57.1 60.1
157 Togo 58.4 56.7 60.1
158 Eritrea 58.0 55.6 60.3
159 Papua New Guinea 57.2 54.6 60.4
160 Niger 56.9 57.8 56.0
161 Gabon 56.7 56.4 57.1
162 Benin 56.7 55.6 57.8
163 Guinea 56.0 54.4 57.6
164 Republic of the Congo 55.3 54.0 56.6
165 Djibouti 54.8 53.6 56.0
166 Mali 54.5 52.1 56.6
167 Kenya (20% below world average) 54.1 53.0 55.2
168 Ethiopia 52.9 51.7 54.3
169 Namibia 52.9 52.5 53.1
170 Tanzania 52.5 51.4 53.6
171 Burkina Faso 52.3 50.7 53.8
172 Equatorial Guinea 51.6 50.4 52.8
173 Uganda 51.5 50.8 52.2
174 Botswana 50.7 50.5 50.7
175 Chad 50.6 49.3 52.0
176 Cameroon 50.4 50.0 50.8
177 Burundi 49.6 48.1 51.0
178 South Africa 49.3 48.8 49.7
179 Côte d'Ivoire 48.3 47.5 49.3
180 Malawi 48.3 48.1 48.4
181 Somalia 48.2 46.9 49.4
182 Nigeria (30% below world average) 46.9 46.4 47.3
183 Democratic Republic of the Congo 46.5 45.2 47.7
184 Guinea-Bissau 46.4 44.9 47.9
185 Rwanda 46.2 44.6 47.8
186 Liberia 45.7 44.8 46.6
187 Central African Republic 44.7 43.3 46.1
188 Afghanistan 43.8 43.9 43.8
189 Zimbabwe 43.5 44.1 42.6
190 Lesotho 42.6 42.9 42.3
191 Sierra Leone 42.6 41.0 44.1
192 Zambia 42.4 42.1 42.5
193 Swaziland (40% below world average) 39.6 39.8 39.4
194 Mozambique 39.2 38.3 39


It should also give you an idea as to why we American might chose to
spend a portion *of our greater per capita GDP on more advanced
medical techniques than your Your-A-PeonSocialist *brethren but I
doubt you will be able to perceive that either.

You can do your part to help keep health costs down by refraining from
eating so much junk food and getting some exercise.


Bret Cahill

On Dec 3, 10:37*am, Bret Cahill wrote:
. I suffer from an incurable lung
disease which will eventually kill me. The Secu has assigned
me special status, 100% coverage. So I don't pay anything .

*Sorry to hear about your illness...... can you imagine if you were in
merkin land though...?

Check out the per capita rate of lung transplants US vs, France. I did
once to enlighten *the Socialist, American ex-pat, Evleth, but google
should be able to help you retrieve it also.

That should give you an *idea of the rationing inherent in your Euro
style Socialized medicine schemes but like Evleth, I doubt you will be
able to relate to it let alone admit it due to your religious- like
fanatacism.

The proof is always in the pudding: *Sweden and 36 other Marxist
countries are ahead of the U. S., some so poor they don't have a
single carrier group.

Life expectancy at birth (years)[4] Rank state/territory Overall Male
Female

1 *Japan 82.7 79.0 86.1
2 *Hong Kong 82.2 79.4 85.1
3 *Israel 82.0 80.0 84.0
4 *Italy 82.0 79.4 84.5
5 *Iceland 81.8 80.2 83.3
6 *Australia 81.2 78.9 83.6
7 *Singapore 81.0 79.0 83.0
8 *Spain 80.9 77.7 84.2
9 *Sweden 80.9 78.7 83.0
10 *Macau 80.7 78.5 82.8
11 *France (metropolitan) 80.7 77.1 84.1
12 *Canada 80.7 78.3 82.9
13 *New Zealand 80.2 78.2 82.2
14 *Norway 80.2 77.8 82.5
15 *United Kingdom 80.1 78.1 82.1
16 *Austria 79.8 76.9 82.6
17 *Netherlands 79.8 77.5 81.9
18 *Martinique ( France) 79.5 76.5 82.3
19 *Greece 79.5 77.1 81.9
20 *Belgium 79.4 76.5 82.3
21 *Malta 79.4 77.3 81.3
22 *Germany 79.4 76.5 82.1
23 *U.S. Virgin Islands ( US) 79.4 75.5 83.3
24 *Finland 79.3 76.1 82.4
25 *Guadeloupe ( France) 79.2 76.0 82.2
26 Channel Islands ( Jersey and *Guernsey) ( UK) 79.0 76.6 81.5
27 *Cyprus 79.0 76.5 81.6
28 *Ireland 78.9 76.5 81.3
29 *Costa Rica 78.8 76.5 81.2
30 *Puerto Rico ( US) 78.7 74.7 82.7
31 *Luxembourg 78.7 75.7 81.6
32 *United Arab Emirates 78.7 77.2 81.5
33 *South Korea 78.6 75.0 82.2
34 *Chile 78.6 75.5 81.5
35 *Denmark 78.3 76.0 80.6
36 *Cuba 78.3 76.2 80.4
37 *United States 78.2 75.6 80.8
38 *Portugal 78.1 75.0 81.2
39 *Slovenia 77.9 74.1 81.5
40 *Kuwait 77.6 76.0 79.9
42 *Barbados 77.3 74.4 79.8
43 *Brunei 77.1 75.0 79.7
44 *Czech Republic 76.5 73.4 79.5
45 *Réunion ( France) 76.4 72.3 80.5
46 *Albania 76.4 73.4 79.7
47 *Uruguay 76.4 72.8 79.9
48 *Mexico 76.2 73.7 78.6
49 *Belize 76.1 73.3 79.2
50 *New Caledonia ( France) 76.1 72.8 79.7
51 *French Guiana ( France) 75.9 72.5 79.9
52 *Croatia 75.7 72.3 79.2
53 *Oman 75.6 74.2 77.5
54 *Bahrain 75.6 74.3 77.5
55 *Qatar 75.6 75.2 76.4
56 *Poland 75.6 71.3 79.8
57 *Panama 75.5 73.0 78.2
58 *Guam ( US) 75.5 73.3 77.9
59 *Argentina 75.3 71.6 79.1
60 *Netherlands Antilles ( Netherlands) 75.1 71.3 78.8
61 *Ecuador 75.0 72.1 78.0
62 *Bosnia and Herzegovina 74.9 72.2 77.4
63 *People's Republic of China (mainland) 74.8[5] 72.4 77.4
64 *Slovakia 74.7 70.7 78.5
65 *Montenegro 74.5 72.4 76.8
66 *Vietnam 74.2 72.3 76.2
67 *Malaysia 74.2 72.0 76.7
68 *Aruba ( Netherlands) 74.2 71.3 77.1
69 *Macedonia 74.2 71.8 76.6
70 *Syria 74.1 72.3 76.1
71 *French Polynesia ( France) 74.1 71.7 76.8
72 *Serbia 74.0 71.7 76.3
73 *Libya 74.0 71.7 76.9
74 *Tunisia 73.9 71.9 76.0
75 *Venezuela 73.7 70.9 76.8
76 *Saint Lucia 73.7 71.8 75.6
77 *Bahamas 73.5 70.6 76.3
78 *Palestinian territories 73.4 71.8 75.0
79 *Hungary 73.3 69.2 77.4
80 *Tonga 73.3 72.3 74.3
81 *Bulgaria 73.0 69.5 76.7
82 *Lithuania 73.0 67.5 78.3
83 *Nicaragua 72.9 69.9 76.0
84 *Colombia 72.9 69.2 76.6
85 *Mauritius 72.8 69.5 76.2
86 *Saudi Arabia 72.8[6] 70.9 75.3
87 *Latvia 72.7 67.3 77.7
88 *Jamaica 72.6 70.0 75.2
89 *Jordan 72.5 70.8 74.5
90 *Romania 72.5 69.0 76.1
91 *Sri Lanka 72.4 68.8 76.2
92 *Brazil 72.4 68.8 76.1
93 *Algeria 72.3 70.9 73.7
94 *Dominican Republic 72.2 69.3 75.5
95 *Lebanon 72.0 69.9 74.2
96 *Armenia 72.0 68.4 75.1
97 *El Salvador 71.9 68.8 74.9
98 *Turkey 71.8 69.4 74.3
99 *Paraguay 71.8 69.7 73.9
100 *Philippines 71.7 69.5 73.9
101 *Cape Verde 71.7 68.3 74.5
102 *Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 71.6 69.5 73.8
103 *Samoa 71.5 68.5 74.8
104 *Peru 71.4 68.9 74.0
105 *Estonia 71.4 65.9 76.8
106 *Egypt 71.3 69.1 73.6
107 *Morocco 71.2 69.0 73.4
108 *Georgia 71.0 67.1 74.8
109 *Iran 71.0 69.4 72.6
110 *Indonesia 70.7 68.7 72.7
111 *Thailand 70.6 66.5 75.0
112 *Russia 70.3 64.3 76.4
113 *Guatemala 70.3 66.7 73.8
114 *Suriname 70.2 67.0 73.6
115 *Honduras 70.2 66.9 73.7
116 *Vanuatu 70.0 68.3 72.1
117 *Trinidad and Tobago 69.8 67.8 71.8
118 *Belarus 69.0 63.1 75.2
119 *Moldova 68.9 65.1 72.5
120 *Fiji 68.8 66.6 71.1
121 *Grenada 68.7 67.0 70.3
122 *Federated States of Micronesia 68.5 67.7 69.3
123 *Maldives 68.5 67.6 69.5
124 *Ukraine 67.9 62.1 73.8
125 *Azerbaijan 67.5 63.8 71.2
126 *North Korea 67.3 65.1 69.3
127 *Uzbekistan 67.2 64.0 70.4
- *World Avg. 67.2 65.0 69.5
128 *Kazakhstan 67.0 61.6 72.4
129 *Guyana 66.8 64.2 69.9
130 *Mongolia 66.8 63.9 69.9
131 *Tajikistan 66.7 64.1 69.4
132 *Western Sahara 65.9 64.3 68.1
133 *Kyrgyzstan 65.9 62.0 69.9
134 *Bhutan 65.6 64.0 67.5
135 *Bolivia 65.6 63.4 67.7
136 *São Tomé and Príncipe 65.5 63.6 67.4
137 *Pakistan 65.5 65.2 65.8
138 *Comoros 65.2 63.0 67.4
139 *India 64.7 63.2 66.4
140 *Laos 64.4 63.0 65.8
141 *Mauritania 64.2 62.4 66.0
142 *Bangladesh 64.1 63.2 65.0
143 *Nepal 63.8 63.2 64.2
144 *Solomon Islands 63.6 62.7 64.5
145 *Turkmenistan 63.2 59.0 67.5
146 *Senegal 63.1 61.0 65.1
147 *Yemen 62.7 61.1 64.3
148 *Myanmar 62.1 59.0 65.3
149 *Haiti 60.9 59.1 62.8
150 *East Timor (10% below world average) 60.8 60.0 61.7
151 *Ghana 60.0 59.6 60.5
152 *Cambodia 59.7 57.3 61.9
153 *Iraq 59.5 57.8 61.5
154 *Gambia 59.4 58.6 60.3
155 *Madagascar 59.4 57.7 61.3
156 *Sudan 58.6 57.1 60.1
157 *Togo 58.4 56.7 60.1
158 *Eritrea 58.0 55.6 60.3
159 *Papua New Guinea 57.2 54.6 60.4
160 *Niger 56.9 57.8 56.0
161 *Gabon 56.7 56.4 57.1
162 *Benin 56.7 55.6 57.8
163 *Guinea 56.0 54.4 57.6
164 *Republic of the Congo 55.3 54.0 56.6
165 *Djibouti 54.8 53.6 56.0
166 *Mali 54.5 52.1 56.6
167 *Kenya (20% below world average) 54.1 53.0 55.2
168 *Ethiopia 52.9 51.7 54.3
169 *Namibia 52.9 52.5 53.1
170 *Tanzania 52.5 51.4 53.6
171 *Burkina Faso 52.3 50.7 53.8
172 *Equatorial Guinea 51.6 50.4 52.8
173 *Uganda 51.5 50.8 52.2
174 *Botswana 50.7 50.5 50.7
175 *Chad 50.6 49.3 52.0
176 *Cameroon 50.4 50.0 50.8
177 *Burundi 49.6 48.1 51.0
178 *South Africa 49.3 48.8 49.7
179 *Côte d'Ivoire 48.3 47.5 49.3
180 *Malawi 48.3 48.1 48.4
181 *Somalia 48.2 46.9 49.4
182 *Nigeria (30% below world average) 46.9 46.4 47.3
183 *Democratic Republic of the Congo 46.5 45.2 47.7
184 *Guinea-Bissau 46.4 44.9 47.9
185 *Rwanda 46.2 44.6 47.8
186 *Liberia 45.7 44.8 46.6
187 *Central African Republic 44.7 43.3 46.1
188 *Afghanistan 43.8 43.9 43.8
189 *Zimbabwe 43.5 44.1 42.6
190 *Lesotho 42.6 42.9 42.3
191 *Sierra Leone 42.6 41.0 44.1
192 *Zambia 42.4 42.1 42.5
193 *Swaziland (40% below world average) 39.6 39.8 39.4
194 *Mozambique 39.2 38.3 39



It should also give you an idea as to why we American might chose to
spend a portion *of our greater per capita GDP on more advanced
medical techniques than your Your-A-PeonSocialist *brethren but I
doubt you will be able to perceive that either.

You can do your part to help keep health costs down by refraining from
eating so much junk food and getting some exercise.

Bret Cahill

The Myth of Americans' Poor Life Expectancy

'It’s one of the most oft-repeated justifications for socialized
medicine: Americans spend more money than other developed countries on
health care, but don’t live as long. If we would just hop on the
European health-care bandwagon, we’d live longer and healthier lives.
The only problem is it’s not true....

....Life expectancy is an appealingly simplistic, but deeply flawed,
way to think about the quality of a country’s health-care system.
After all, shouldn’t good health care make you live longer? Well, yes,
but. The problem, of course, is that there are many factors that
affect life expectancy...."

google it for this source
particular