Come on New Zealand had 4 million people. The Netherlands has 16 million. California and the US are pushing those respective numbers in illegal immigrants alone.
So what, the bigger the scale, the more efficient you could make it. Its harder to get costs down on small scale, a country like the Netherlands has no leverage over pharmaceutical companies compared to the US. If you can do it on a scale as small as that, surely you could do it on a state level in the US?
Not only that, the US is far
wealthier than New Zealand and the Netherlands combined:
United States GDP - $ 14,660,000,000,000
New Zealand GDP - $ 117,800,000,000
Netherlands GDP - $ 676,900,000,000
And to boot: Monaco, highest
listed life expectancy, had a substantially lower GDP compared to the US: $ 976,300,000 (2006 est.)
Have you bothered to follow this thread? I addressed this already. The methods of record keeping is different. For example, if an infant is born dead, but there was no evidence that the fetus was dead before labor began, that baby is counted as a infant in the US, but not in many other nations until it survives for several minutes outside the womb. Many other stats are skewed in similar ways, because the standard methods of record keeping is different between countries. In the US, if a pregant mother is murdered, it's recorded as a double homicide.
They have a higher life expectancy because they have a lower infant mortality rate. They have a lower infant mortality rate because they record infant deaths differently. In the US, if a fetus is delivered naturally, and was not known to already be dead before labor began, it's counted as an infant death instead of a late term miscarriage. Thus skewing the life expectancy stats compared to nations that don't include infants that die during or shortly following birth. I'm not sure how Canada does it, but it's still apples to oranges.
No, you didn't address it. You need to show how they are different in Canada from the US, rather than assuming it is. Do the needful and back up this so far unsubstantiated claim.