It's weird that you're so fixated on obesity as the only driver of poor healthcare outcomes.
Re:How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness
by Consultant32452 on Sunday March 19, 2017 @10:59PM
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and smoking, which I specifically mentioned, and teen birth rates. I mean of course the biggest one is obesity since heart disease is the leading cause of death.
Re:How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness
by Tenhundfeld on Friday March 17, 2017 @05:02PM
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I hear ya. I think a healthcare system can affect smoking rates and obesity rates. You disagree.
Likewise, I disagree that "paying a copay to go to a doctor" is really the crux of the issue.
Maybe we'll meet one day by happenstance and have a richer discussion on this complicated topic. Have a good one.
US life expectancy: 79 years Sweden life expectancy: 81 years
It is falsifiable. When I talk about culture I'm talking about things like smoking rates, obesity rates, etc. These things are totally unrelated to whether or not you pay a copay to go to a doctor. If you think our relative life expectancy has nothing to do with our obesity rates, then I'm sorry but you just don't need to be making statements about healthcare at all.