Re:Why higher-income workers in California may get surprised...
by personomas on Sunday October 08, 2023 @10:39AM
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It's a minor difference (3 years), there are a lot of other reasons that can contribute to difference in life expectancy than health care. Europe is very much, you know, don't do anything, sit at a home all days. Americans are more likely to live their and get out - which comes with obvious danger, but at least Americans might experience life!
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Re:Why higher-income workers in California may get surprised...
by dv_dt on Sunday October 08, 2023 @11:11AM
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How much is a year of your life worth? A few thousand in taxes a year? The US left expectancy has also been going down even after the worse of Covid while the EU is returning to a slow upward trend.
It’s also that if you lose you’re job you immediately have to think about where you are going to get your healthcare from and changing a lot of paperwork or even providers.
Re:Why higher-income workers in California may get surprised...
by personomas on Sunday October 08, 2023 @11:37AM
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The point is that you can't draw conclusions of quality of health care simply based of one statistic. There so many other reasons to cause difference in life expectancy.
> The US left expectancy has also been going down even after the worse of Covid while the EU is returning to a slow upward trend.
This is complete meaningless non-sense. You can't draw trends from this. And it's not relevant to the discussion anyways!
> It’s also that if you lose you’re job you immediately have to think about where you are going to get your healthcare from and changing a lot of paperwork or even providers.
You think you have lots of paperwork in the US?? Come to Europe man.