Quote:Right crazy. Is it incongruous to understand the relationship between life style and health? What are factors in life expectancy? Genetics, life style, health care, environment, etc. So, like education, pumping more money into health care will not automatically drive up life expectancy.
Well, you should look at the right 'more money'. Pumping more money in a private health clinic in order for them to get the best doctors will indeed not help a lot. Giving people who otherwise have difficulty getting basic a good national insurance so that they can go to the doctor when they have a bad flu, stomach pain or headache (things that somebody poor who has to pay his own care directly would not go to the doctor for) will drive up life expectancy.