U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018)

Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) by vonmoltke on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:32PM (#20345885)

There's also the issue that there is not a "US health system". There are 50 slightly different health systems. Health insurance is still a state-level thing with different state-level requirements. We can't create a German-style compulsory insurance system until something is done about that.

Of course, nothing except political will is stopping individual states from doing so.

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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:47PM (#20346069)

> We can't create a German-style compulsory insurance system until something is done about that.

Germany also has, IIRC, a mix of federal (including the basic mandate and baseline standards) and state-level rules for health insurance.

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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) by vonmoltke on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:31PM (#20347150)

Oh, maybe there is something of a model in Germany then.

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