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Has anyone considered that perhaps the cost of treating Americans is going up, too? Notwithstanding existing understood market failures, etc., the growth in med
by dibujante 9y ago
Has anyone considered that perhaps the cost of treating Americans is going up, too? Notwithstanding existing understood market failures, etc., the growth in medicaid/medicare spending tracks the growth in obesity very well.
- epmaybe 9y agoI don't think anyone disagrees with that. Americans are pretty unhealthy.
- Avshalom 9y agoWeird how being unable to afford healthcare correlates with a population being unhealthy.
- Avshalom 9y agoWell I mean being unable to afford to get your broken ankle re-set when it heals weird the first or spending a life in chronic pain or never getting treatment for sleep apnea etc... all seem like good ways to make obesity grow as a result of in ability to pay for medical care and a good way to eventually find your way to being on disability, poor and in poor health and then on medicaid/medicare. So you know maybe it's a vicious fucking cycle. Oh wait actually we know for a damn fact it is and has nothing to do with obesity: preventative care just keeps shit way cheaper that's half the point of the ACA forcing insurance companies to cover at least some of it (the other half being a basic belief in human dignity).
- strictnein 9y agoThe US isn't obese because we all have broken ankles.
- jopsen 9y agoLike so many things that are broken in America, it's not one thing that's to blame - it's multiple: People lives longer; more illness we can treat; growing administration; new expensive technology; few doctors; price gouging; anti-competitive behavior; malpractice lawsuits; lack of preventative care; uninsured bumping in and out of emergency rooms; and so on... Some of these are successfully solved by most western countries. Some of them are quite plausibly not solvable. As we have more technology and treatments to keep people alive, cost will necessarily go up.