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0 pointsible15y ago0 comments

That's funny, but I'm not sure it's true. Your first link seems to say (it's worded awkwardly) that Japanese women in the US have a 84.5 year life expectancy. This isn't quite as high as the 85.66 life expectancy Japanese women have in Japan (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...)

That's despite people of Asian descent in the US having higher income and education than the average, both of which are positively correlated with life expectancy.

Even if it is true, I'm not sure what the significance would be. I would be surprised if you couldn't pick out many subgroups in the US which do better in the US than in their places of origin, without it supporting an argument about the quality of the overall system.

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yummyfajitas15y ago

Oops, I think I misread the article. I stand corrected.

Very true. To actually make the argument you are trying to make, you'd actually need to do a carefully controlled study. But most such studies (which include ethnicity, rural living, diet, etc as predictors) actually show no significant relationship between marginal changes in health care and health outcomes.

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