Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings
by austincheney on Sunday December 30, 2018 @06:59AM
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> American healthcare is so bad
Are there numbers for this? As an American I have enjoyed great health care on-demand all my life at very little or no expense and I pay very little for insurance.
Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings
by maxerickson on Sunday December 30, 2018 @07:11AM
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Yes, there are numbers. We spend more than pretty much anyone else and don't have particularly good outcomes among developed countries.
Some of that is explained by efficient outcomes not really being a systematic goal, but we also have a dumb regulatory framework where a bunch of things are highly regulated and prices aren't touched.
Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings
by busboybus on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:09PM
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Mexico has rampant obesity and type II diabetes. Mexicans simply do not pursue as much treatment as Americans do. It washes out in the lifespan statistics, which call into question the whole point of the healthcare enterprise.
Healthcare is massively overrated.
Re:Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings
by aesclepius on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:40AM
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> Healthcare is massively overrated.
Working in the medical field as an internal medicine physician, I'd say that focused and good-quality healthcare is vital to prolongation of life, and poorly derived, financially-motivated 'medicine as profit' is massively overrated.
A big part of that is getting the basics right. Diabetics don't need to start gofundmes to afford insulin, they don't get into medical emergencies if they run low on funds, then get swamped with medical debt from having to be hospitalized (further digging their insulin fund hole). they can live healthy and productive lives.