In Cuba and other communist countries you have to realize that the government keeps the stats. You have to trust them to report them accurately even though it is not to their benefit to do so.

Even in countries like Mexico and Columbia, there is a peasant class whose early deaths are rarely reported.

If you look at the life expentancy of a 75 year old White vs 75 year old African-American: you will find the African-American lives longer.

http://article.nationalreview......hiNDQxOTc=

Money quote: “Would any of you willingly give back 20 years in exchange for less health-care spending?” (which is exactly what Obamy intends to do to YOU).

This is exactly the point I make when I say anybody can cut his health care costs dramatically, and easily. All you have to do is refuse treatments and drugs that have been developed in the last 20 years.

If Obama’s health care’s one payer by 2013 passes, and the government becomes in charge, it violates the 4th amendment, unlawful search and seizure.

What did you mean about a trade off then?

Quite honestly I have no figures as to what percentage of Muslim immigrants are inciting violence in Sweden. I can only go by what my wife’s relatives in Sweden tell us. Yes, I have met Muslims who wouldn’t harm a fly. But as with any group it’s always the bad apples that get the press and whose deeds that people remember the most.

Do you think one has to give up their freedoms to be healthier?

What percentage of Muslim immigrants would you say are violent and creating that hell on earth in Sweden?

Do their counts include those innocents who die before leaving the womb (for ALL reasons); or are these stats just for those who make it thru to birth.

What kinds of records is the US setting on that abortion thing.

(Both items are probably more of a statement than a question.)

That’s what explains the well-known, but seemingly contradictory statistics, that show Americans have superior survival rates for all forms of cancer, heart disease, and most other illnesses. In other words, if you don’t get killed, you will live longer in America.

And even that doesn’t take into consideration the fact that we are much more rigorous about tracking infant mortality (which has a big impact on longevity, since the deaths of infants has an out-sized impact on longevity statistics, and we count many infant mortatilites that other countries do not.)

And even that doesn’t take into consideration that the U.S. is one of the least homogenous populations of all countries. In other words, our longevity stats reflect healthy percentages of Mexican and third-world health care and lifestyles that other countries (like Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, etc.) do not have.

I agree with Colonel, McDonalds does a body good.