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> Healthcare has the largest influence on life expectancy from infant mortality, but the 0.5% increase only changes life expectancy by ~6 months. That is simpl
by chimeracoder 8y ago
> Healthcare has the largest influence on life expectancy from infant mortality, but the 0.5% increase only changes life expectancy by ~6 months.
That is simply not true for the IHS. The IHS is way, way worse than anything you can imagine in the rest of the US. It has literally committed genocide (intentionally) under the ruse of medical care, and genocide has a funny way of decreasing life expectancy.
- Retric 8y agoI am not defending IHS, if you say it's doing a poor job then it likely is. However, other factors are still important. EX: "At 43%, adult obesity rates in Oglala Lakota County were 17 percentage points higher than rates of adult obesity nationally and 13 points higher than statewide rates." Further, you can find several other counties with rather similar life expectancy results that don't have IHS. So, simply pointing at IHS is not the complete story.