Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove

Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by throwaway2037 on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @11:51PM (#41855438)

    > However Canadians have free healthcare

I don't like this use of "free". It is paid for by taxes. That is no where near free. It is extremely hard in a highly advanced economy to provide quality healthcare at less than 10% of GDP. That is a huge number for any wealthy country.

Also, Canadians are pretty fat. It looks like 65% are overweight, which includes obese. Ref: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1317268/overweight-obesi...

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Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by janalsncm on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @12:41AM (#41855662)

Fair point, it isn’t “free” of course. But it is accessible to everyone. No copay/deductible/coinsurance bs.

> It is extremely hard in a highly advanced economy to provide quality healthcare at less than 10% of GDP.

In the US we pay 17% of GDP towards healthcare and tons of people still can’t afford it.

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Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by defrost on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @12:46AM (#41855700)

The general view of US healthcare is that not much of the money paid toward better health outcomes reaches the target.

A quote from another comment here is:

     Australia’s health system far outperforms the .. US healthcare system, which spends nearly twice as much per capita as Australia to deliver far worse outcomes — including Americans dying five years younger than us.

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Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by throwaway2037 on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @04:20AM (#41856791)

    > No copay/deductible/coinsurance bs.

Many highly developed countries have copays in their national health insurance programme.

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