For which specific diseases does the US have a higher mortality rate than countries with socialized medicine?

For many ailments, including most cancers, heart attack, stroke and others, I see the US has a higher survival rate.

What statistics are those trying to change the US system relying on? Are they accurate?

None.

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To: Mac

Life expectancy is a poor statistic for determining the efficacy of a health care system.

For example, open any newspaper and, chances are, there are stories about people who die “in their sleep,” car accident or a shooting before an ambulance ever arrives.
If an individual dies with no interaction with the health care system, then his death tells us little about the quality of a health care system.
Yet all such deaths are computed into the life expectancy statistic.

Life expectancy, is inadequate measure for health care systems. Life expectancy is influenced by a host of factors other than a health care system.
A plethora of factors influence life expectancy, including genetics, lifestyle, diet, income and educational levels. A health care system has, at best, minimal impact.
Life expectancy measure does not provides the United States with conclusive guidance on health care policy, let alone serve as reliable evidence that a system of universal health care “should be implemented in the United States.

There is no relationship between life expectancy and spending on health care.
Greece, Malta or Cuba this country’s that spend the least per capita on health care, have higher life expectancy than several other countries, including Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Spain & Singapore which spends the next least per capita on health care, have higher life expectancy than ten other countries that spend more.
Yet the United States has the highest GDP per capita in the world, so why does it have a life expectancy lower than most of the industrialized world?
The primary reason is that the U.S. is ethnically a far more diverse nation than most other industrialized nations. Factors associated with different ethnic backgrounds – culture, diet, etc. – can have a substantial impact on life expectancy.
Comparisons of distinct ethnic populations in the U.S. with their country of origin find similar rates of life expectancy. For example, Japanese-Americans have an average life expectancy similar to that of Japanese.

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