Socialized Health Care in the USA

[kandrathe]

Don't like the other graph? Think there's no correlation? Fine. Try this one.

Plain as day.

You'd look at that and think so, but the people who built the graph are trying to make the same argument as you. In order to draw the conclusion that you do, you would need to examine if the hypothesis of applying more money per capita actually increased the "life expectancy". And, conversely, that in reducing the amount of money spent actually reduced the "life expectancy".

So for example, does Japan have a higher life expectancy due to the people there spending more dollars per year going to the doctor? Where is the control group? Could we measure the number of visits, and the incidence of disease for comparison? Are there life style (healthy eating and exercise), and genetic factor differences that are measurable for comparison?

I would examine Cuba as an outlier and determine what they do then that keeps them healthy without spending much money on health care at all. How much health care do they get, and who provides it?