Author: Joel Achenbach, Dan Keating, Laurie McGinley, Akilah Johnson, and Jahi Chikwendiu Source: The Washington Post Publication Date: 3 October 2023 | 0600 Link: An Epidemic of Chronic Illness is Killing Us Too Soon
Stephan:
American voters just don’t seem to get it. The United States has very poor health care, and I want to be clear here, the problem is not the physicians, nurses and other medical staff. They are burning out they work so hard. It is the financial structure of the American illness profit system. We rank 69th in the world. You can get better healthcare in the Czech Republic or the Maldives than you can in the U.S.. Even worse if you live in America statistically you will live 5.9 years less than people in other developed nations, and some third-world countries. In Life expectancy, we rank 47th compared with other nations. According to the CDC these are the American longevity statistics for 2023:
Both sexes: 76.4 years
Males: 73.5 years
Females: 79.3 years
Compared that with Hong Kong (85.83 years) or French Polynesia (83.70 years)And yet, do you see a drive for creating universal birthright single-payer healthcare equitably distributed across the country? You do not. Instead, we are talking about Hunter Biden’s laptop. If the voters don’t get it, the politicians, other than Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and a few others never will. This is also a major manifestation of The Great Schism Red Blue Trend.
The United States is failing at a fundamental mission — keeping people alive.
After decades of progress, life expectancy — long regarded as a singular benchmark of a nation’s success — peaked in 2014 at 78.9 years, then drifteddownward even before the coronavirus pandemic. Among wealthy nations, the United States in recent decades went from the middle of the pack to being an outlier. And it continues to fallfurther and further behind.
A year-long Washington Post examination reveals that this erosion in life spans is deeper and broader than widely recognized, afflictinga far-reaching swath of the United States.
While opioids and gun violence have rightly seized the public’s attention, stealing hundreds of thousands of lives, chronic diseases are the greatest threat, killing far more people between 35 and 64 every year, The Post’s analysis of mortality data found.
Heart disease and cancer remained, even at the height of the pandemic, the leading causes of death for people 35 to 64. And many other conditions — private tragedies that unfold in tens of millionsof U.S. households — have […]
Sam Crespi
on Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 8:46 am
As you know, I lived for a number of years abroad. Time which became an eye opener and left me better informed in ways I hadn’t been before. I believe that the lack of education and a large regional areas that remain uninformed and uneducated in the US continue to take a terrible toll on the US. The dream that might have been America is rapidly disappearing. Makes my heart ache.. how the nation has become isolated, turning in on itself.
As you know, I lived for a number of years abroad. Time which became an eye opener and left me better informed in ways I hadn’t been before. I believe that the lack of education and a large regional areas that remain uninformed and uneducated in the US continue to take a terrible toll on the US. The dream that might have been America is rapidly disappearing. Makes my heart ache.. how the nation has become isolated, turning in on itself.