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I don't reasonably consider that we can attribute black people and hispanic people simply existing to an additional 8% of GDP in healthcare consumption. That se
by KittenInABox 5y ago
I don't reasonably consider that we can attribute black people and hispanic people simply existing to an additional 8% of GDP in healthcare consumption. That seems like a huge claim with no evidence provided.
I'd like to first see evidence that people of different race has a causality effect on healthcare consumption.
- vorpalhex 5y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181672/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181672/
- bluedino 5y agoI'm not blaming races, I'm just saying the people are different. Even white Americans and Canadians are not the same. Per the CDC: Among men, the prevalence of obesity was over 8 percentage points lower in Canada than in the United States (24.3% compared with 32.6%) and among women, more than 12 percentage points lower (23.9% compared with 36.2%) In the United States, the majority of the nonwhite population is black or Hispanic for whom the prevalence of obesity is higher than it is for the white population (3). Among nonwhite Canadians, the largest group is comprised of East/Southeast Asian persons for whom the prevalence of obesity is lower than it is for the white population