And of you are in possession of truth what you would find is that life expectancy from birth is shorter but if you measure from the early thirties onward black and white males live to the same age although the primary diseases which ultimately cause death are different. The "logic" that health care might be the cause is specious. Likewise it isn't bad health care but less educated women do not use services which are available. BTW health care does not magically improve with black males age.
Why do the kids die?
Wasn't there a blurb a bit back about "infant mortality rates"?
And here's the rub. Genetically I think blacks have a better physiological makeup due to the years of hardship endured. If you weren't tough enough, you DIED, many dying before reproducing. An unpleasant "side effect" from Slavery and 3rd world living conditions (combined in different proportions).
This physical advantage is readily seen in almost ALL sports, but is becoming diluted with age as natural genetic permutations, poor living conditions, and interbreeding are making them just as unhealthy as the rest of us.
My point being, you can't draw conclusions from mass data about a specific race or socioeconomic group w/o some serious uniform parameters, delineation of environmental factors, and qualification through a large enough sample set to validate.
What we do all the time these days is throw numbers around.
All I know is that when I look at my medical bill and see the charges for something as simple as a shot (several HUNDRED dollars) and the insurance payment thereof ($47) it makes me question our system.
When I went to college and was no longer under my parents plan, looking at Cobra plans, even way back then, was daunting. The cheapest were over $300 a month for a healthy 22yo (grad school). How do we expect the middle class to bear that easily? That is as much as I spent on FOOD!
Anyway, I have work to do.... last time I checked...