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lumberjack_jeff

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4. Maybe. Maybe not.

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 30, 2013, 04:18 PM

Apr 2013

The disparity between the life expectancies of men and women is a relatively new phenomenon.

If we accept that increased life expectancy is largely because of improved healthcare, it's hard to reject the premise that the gender disparity is because of the gender disparity in healthcare spending.

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Imagine if women lived 10 years less than men! [View all] Bonobo Apr 2013 OP

Imagine also if men consumed 33% more of the total health care spending Major Nikon Apr 2013 #1

Pick only two lumberjack_jeff Apr 2013 #2

I don't personally believe that it has much to do with anything except the structure of the human Warren DeMontague Apr 2013 #3

Maybe. Maybe not. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2013 #4

Hmmm. I suppose, although there has always been *some* disparity. Warren DeMontague Apr 2013 #5

The chart is life expectancy at birth. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2013 #6

That could be true... Bonobo Apr 2013 #7