Re:On Cultures That Build
by antepodius on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:56AM
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Well, also because of the societal trap of health insurance.
If you have health insurance, you're (hopefully) not paying for your medical costs. So the medical costs get jacked up- after all, you, the buyer, don't front the bill.
If nobody had health insurance, medicine would be cheaper. Of course, for every individual who can afford it, health insurance is a good choice (individually).
No doubt the efficiency of the care that is being provided could be dramatically improved, but that's not the root problem, IMO.
Re:On Cultures That Build
by antepodius on Sunday June 21, 2020 @07:44PM
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I basically agree with you.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672390/
And actually, if weight by quality of years lived, almost certainly worse off.
(That's a British paper, but let's say US and UK are roughly equal.)
This is, I think, because we're basically poisoning ourselves w/ poor diet, then trying to mitigate w/ medical care.
Probably most people would more or less agree with the above statement, but then you'd find very little agreement about what exactly about our diet makes it so unhealthy. (I think the #1 culprit is excessive linoleic acid.)