Krugman responds to Bill O'Reilly's claim about U.S.-Canadian life expectancy: “I need a drink”

Written by Media Matters Staff

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Columnist Paul Krugman's July 28 post on his New York Times blog:

Speechless

Bill O'Reilly explaining that of course America has lower life expectancy than Canada - we have 10 times as many people, so we have 10 times as many deaths.

I need a drink.

Previously:

Fuzzy math: O'Reilly says higher Canadian life expectancy is “to be expected” because “we have 10 times as many people”