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Re:How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness by Consultant32452 on Friday March 17, 2017 @03:21PM (#13897118)
>If we ignore the fact that the US is in the 10 OECD nations with lowest life expectancy.

We have among the lowest life expectancy because we have among the highest obesity. That has almost nothing to do with healthcare access.

>There's a bunch of over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment in the US. These make customers feel like they're getting good service, even though they're being harmed by it.

If you really believe that getting too much access to healthcare treatments is the big problem in our country, you might be in the wrong discussion.

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Re:How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness by cryptarch on Friday March 17, 2017 @03:31PM (#13897206)
Do you think obesity is not significantly increased by overmedication?
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Re:How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness by Consultant32452 on Friday March 17, 2017 @03:51PM (#13897377)
It might be statistically significant, but it's definitely not the primary cause. Our government fed us HORRIBLE high carb nutrition guidelines for decades and continues to subsidize the sugar (mainly high fructose corn syrup) industry. Those are much bigger factors than whether or not you got a useless MRI.
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