Geo436 LONDON/CHICAGO: Older Americans suffer more chronic disease than their English counterparts, but the English die earlier, according to a study on Thursday that could
revive debate about whose health system is better.
Researchers at the U.S.-based RAND Corp and Britain’s Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that while Americans aged 55 and older have higher rates of chronic disease, they live longer than elderly people who get ill in England.
“If you get sick at older ages, you will die sooner in England than in the United States,” said James Smith, an economist with RAND in Santa Monica, California, who co-authored the study with James Banks and Alastair Muriel of the IFS.
“It appears that at least in terms of survival at older ages with chronic disease, the medical system in the United States may be
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