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ality. They use life expectancy data - listed for people who have already d ied - as a crude indicator of medical quality. If you've got a better one, tell us about it. Infant mortality is another popular proxy, and the US doe s badly there too.
That's not what life expectancy tables are about - as you should be well aw are.
you don't like the result you concoct a nonsense argument, and when you get called on it, you try to move the goal-posts. In this particular case you wanted to explain away America's depressingly low life expectancy figures w ith the following densely statistical argument
the US life expectancy short-fall, and you do know enough to have been awar e that you were consciously trying to mislead your readers.
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You should know - you'd be the local expert on the subject. As in "The life expectancy for people who've died is usually zero".
So clever things up, and find the international comparison that makes the U S look good, as opposed to finding reasons why all the numerous comparisons that make it look bad are misleading.