Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ...
by inglor_cz on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:09PM
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Looking at the levels of obesity in the U.S., I consider the 26th place a true miracle of American medicine. If it can prevent people who devastate their bodies with junk food for decades from dying at 50 ...
On the other hand, imagine the world where Coca-Cola makes billions on healthy drinks, people are slim and fit until they die, and half of the money spent on treatment of chronic diseases of excess can be used for something else.
Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ...
by rootusrootus on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:19PM
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> Looking at the levels of obesity in the U.S.,
This is not unique to the US. Can't really say "but we only have 25% obesity here" and call that any kind of win. Maybe the US leads in this regards (though it varies by region, some areas have European-level obesity rates), but obesity is a worldwide problem.
A common attitude which may cause:
Health care is extremely costly in the United States. Although the rate of growth in spending has attenuated in recent years, per capita spending on health care is estimated to be 50 to 200 percent greater in the United States than in other economically developed countries. Despite leading the world in costs, however, the United States ranks twenty-sixth in the world for life expectancy and ranks poorly on other indicators of quality.
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/complex-relatio...