Proof we do NOT have the world's best health care system
can been seen in one basic fact:
in the US life expectancy for both men in women puts the US in 37th place in the world, with that for women dropping in much of the country.
That immediately grabbed my attention as I read Living longer? Not in US by Derrick Jackson in today's Boston Globe
There I read
Researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation this month published a county-by-county analysis of life expectancy. From 1987 to 1997, there were 227 counties where female life expectancy dropped. From 1997 to 2007, the number of counties where women’s life expectancy dropped exploded to 737.
In 2,054 of the nation's 3,147 counties, life expectancies for women fell further behind the 10 nations with the