{"id":2384,"date":"2009-07-28T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2009-07-28T11:31:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T19:31:38","slug":"socialized-medicine-numbers-are-of-the-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/socialized-medicine-numbers-are-of-the-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialized medicine, numbers are of the essence?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if there is some context to this Bill O’Reilly assertion<\/a> that Canadian life expectancy is higher because of fewer people, and so fewer absolute fatalities (e.g., he got turned around on the words?). But it got me wondering, how do Canadian provinces relate to American states in terms of life expectancy at birth?<\/strong> It was easy to find male and female life expectancy online from the US and Canadian Census. Below the fold is a dot chart showing the male life expectancies rank ordered. Additionally, there is table (also sorted by male life expectancy) where I’ve bolded Canadian provinces and American states which border Canada. If readers are interested in demographic correlates of mortality, I recommend Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States<\/a>.
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State\/Province<\/strong><\/em><\/TD> Life expectancy at birth Male<\/strong><\/em><\/TD> Life expectancy at birth Female<\/strong><\/em><\/TD> <\/TR>
British Columbia<\/strong><\/TD> 78.0<\/strong><\/TD> 83.0<\/strong><\/TD> <\/TR>
Hawaii<\/TD> 77.1<\/TD> 82.5<\/TD> <\/TR>
Ontario<\/strong><\/TD> 77.0<\/strong><\/TD> 82.0<\/strong><\/TD> <\/TR>
Alberta<\/strong><\/TD> 77.0<\/strong><\/TD> 82.0<\/strong><\/TD> <\/TR>
Utah<\/TD> 76.5<\/TD> 80.6<\/TD> <\/TR>
Minnesota<\/em><\/TD> 76.5<\/em><\/TD> 81.3<\/em><\/TD> <\/TR>
Colorado<\/TD> 76.1<\/TD> 80.4<\/TD> <\/TR>
Nova Scotia<\/strong><\/TD> 76.0<\/strong><\/TD> 81.0<\/strong><\/TD> <\/TR>
New Brunswick<\/strong><\/TD> 76.0<\/strong><\/TD> 82.0<\/strong><\/TD> <\/TR>
Quebec<\/strong><\/TD> 76.0<\/strong><\/TD> 82.0<\/strong><\/TD> <\/TR>
Manitoba<\/strong><\/TD> 76.0<\/strong><\/TD> 81.0<\/strong><\/TD> <\/TR>
Saskatchewan<\/strong><\/TD> 76.0<\/strong><\/TD> 82.0<\/strong><\/TD> <\/TR>
New Hampshire<\/em><\/TD> 75.9<\/em><\/TD> 80.7<\/em><\/TD> <\/TR>
Idaho<\/em><\/TD> 75.9<\/em><\/TD> 80.2<\/em><\/TD> <\/TR>
Washington<\/em><\/TD> 75.9<\/em><\/TD> 80.5<\/em><\/TD> <\/TR>
California<\/TD> 75.9<\/TD> 80.6<\/TD> <\/TR>
Vermont<\/em><\/TD> 75.8<\/em><\/TD> 80.4<\/em><\/TD> <\/TR>
North Dakota<\/em><\/TD> 75.8<\/em><\/TD> 81.7<\/em><\/TD> <\/TR>
Iowa<\/TD> 75.8<\/TD> 80.8<\/TD> <\/TR>
Massachusetts<\/TD> 75.8<\/TD> 80.7<\/TD> <\/TR>
Connecticut<\/TD> 75.7<\/TD> 80.8<\/TD> <\/TR>
Nebraska<\/TD> 75.6<\/TD> 80.6<\/TD> <\/TR>
Oregon<\/TD> 75.5<\/TD> 80.0<\/TD> <\/TR>
Rhode Island<\/TD> 75.5<\/TD> 80.3<\/TD> <\/TR>
Wisconsin<\/TD> 75.4<\/TD> 80.5<\/TD> <\/TR>
New York<\/em><\/TD> 75.1<\/TD> 80.2<\/TD> <\/TR>
Maine<\/em><\/TD> 75.1<\/TD> 80.0<\/TD> <\/TR>
South Dakota<\/TD> 75.0<\/TD> 80.9<\/TD> <\/TR>
Newfoundland and Labrador<\/strong><\/TD> 75.0<\/strong><\/TD> 81.0<\/strong><\/TD> <\/TR>
Prince Edward Island<\/strong><\/TD> 75.0<\/strong><\/TD> 82.0<\/strong><\/TD> <\/TR>
Kansas<\/TD> 74.9<\/TD> 79.8<\/TD> <\/TR>
Wyoming<\/TD> 74.9<\/TD> 79.3<\/TD> <\/TR>
New Jersey<\/TD> 74.8<\/TD> 79.8<\/TD> <\/TR>
Arizona<\/TD> 74.7<\/TD> 80.2<\/TD> <\/TR>
Montana<\/em><\/TD> 74.7<\/em><\/TD> 80.0<\/em><\/TD> <\/TR>
Florida<\/TD> 74.6<\/TD> 80.3<\/TD> <\/TR>
New Mexico<\/TD> 74.4<\/TD> 80.1<\/TD> <\/TR>
Virginia<\/TD> 74.3<\/TD> 79.1<\/TD> <\/TR>
Alaska<\/TD> 74.2<\/TD> 79.1<\/TD> <\/TR>
Texas<\/TD> 74.1<\/TD> 79.2<\/TD> <\/TR>
Pennsylvania<\/TD> 74.0<\/TD> 79.3<\/TD> <\/TR>
Delaware<\/TD> 74.0<\/TD> 78.9<\/TD> <\/TR>
Illinois<\/TD> 73.9<\/TD> 79.2<\/TD> <\/TR>
Michigan<\/em><\/TD> 73.9<\/TD> 78.7<\/TD> <\/TR>
Ohio<\/TD> 73.8<\/TD> 78.7<\/TD> <\/TR>
Maryland<\/TD> 73.6<\/TD> 78.8<\/TD> <\/TR>
Indiana<\/TD> 73.4<\/TD> 78.6<\/TD> <\/TR>
Nevada<\/TD> 73.4<\/TD> 78.7<\/TD> <\/TR>
Missouri<\/TD> 73.4<\/TD> 78.7<\/TD> <\/TR>
North Carolina<\/TD> 72.7<\/TD> 78.4<\/TD> <\/TR>
Oklahoma<\/TD> 72.6<\/TD> 77.6<\/TD> <\/TR>
Georgia<\/TD> 72.3<\/TD> 77.8<\/TD> <\/TR>
Kentucky<\/TD> 72.3<\/TD> 77.9<\/TD> <\/TR>
West Virginia<\/TD> 72.3<\/TD> 77.7<\/TD> <\/TR>
Arkansas<\/TD> 72.1<\/TD> 77.9<\/TD> <\/TR>
Tennessee<\/TD> 71.8<\/TD> 77.7<\/TD> <\/TR>
South Carolina<\/TD> 71.6<\/TD> 77.9<\/TD> <\/TR>
Alabama<\/TD> 71.3<\/TD> 77.5<\/TD> <\/TR>
Louisiana<\/TD> 71.2<\/TD> 77.3<\/TD> <\/TR>
Mississippi<\/TD> 70.4<\/TD> 76.7<\/TD> <\/TR>
District of Columbia<\/TD> 68.5<\/TD> 76.1<\/TD> <\/TR> <\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if there is some context to this Bill O’Reilly assertion that Canadian life expectancy is higher because of fewer people, and so fewer absolute fatalities (e.g., he got turned around on the words?). But it got me … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[1129,295,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}