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In general many things are better, but there's no rationale, for example, for US life expectancy lagging other modern nations (as well as dropping for the last
by dv_dt 9y ago
In general many things are better, but there's no rationale, for example, for US life expectancy lagging other modern nations (as well as dropping for the last couple of years).
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/21/health/us-life-expectancy-study/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/21/health/us-life-expectancy-stu...
In general the US expectancy is leaving the cluster of traditional first world nations and approaching the next cluster of more recent additions to the modern world.
https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/Health-at-a-Glance-2013-Press-Release-USA.pdf https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/Health-at-a-Glance-2013-Pr...
So to say the US standard of living is rising - I would say that unless we correct some fundamental issues that rise cannot just be blindly counted upon.
- sokoloff 9y ago> there's no rationale, for example, for US life expectancy lagging other modern nations I wouldn't be surprised if more than half the lag is obesity (or diet and [lack of] exercise, depending on the level of "why?" you want to look at). Walk around a shopping area in an European city. Then walk around a shopping mall or Walmart in the US. The difference is not subtle. (I'm also part of the problem as I'm on the American side of scale, so to speak.)
- dv_dt 9y agoPerhaps a declining standard of living is a contributor; inequality leads to lack of personal time, leads to less exercise, more choices of fast foods, leads higher stress including less mobility from jobs tied to healthcare benefits, etc.