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Obamacare upheld! Now can I buy into the Japanese health system instead?

by · June 28, 2012 · 5 Comments

Prescription medications in Japan (Photo from Flickr by Evan Blaser)

They do it better in Japan. They do it better in Costa Rica, in Andorra, and even in Slovenia. No, I’m not talking about sex. I’m talking about living itself. Americans just don’t live that long. We come in a shabby 34th in global life expectancy rankings. The average Japanese citizen lives to 83.5 years old, five [...]

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