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by brianjoseff 2667 days ago
What is going on with Greece in the first life expectancy chart? Large reversal in cost increase coupled with unperturbed steady increase in life expectancy.

Also has impressive numbers in other charts.

2 comments

2008 financial crisis forced drastic cost-cutting.

The question is what the lag on health effects of that was. We know from things like smoking prevention and childhood diseases that the lag can be huge, anything up to half a century.

Likely to be a delayed time effect, people aren't born and live to 80 in the space of ~15 years.