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I don't see any reason to believe that for-profit insurance is playing any role at all in that since countries with socialized medicine aren't regularly seeing
by parineum 3y ago
I don't see any reason to believe that for-profit insurance is playing any role at all in that since countries with socialized medicine aren't regularly seeing 120 year olds.
- jabradoodle 3y agoThat's a weird benchmark to set. FWIW, USA is ~47th globally in life expectancy.
- parineum 3y agoIn the context of the article, it's not weird. Regardless, the USA is only a couple years behind and, with the way life expectancy is measured, that's much better explained by inner-city violence than it is by healthcare.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoThe US is an aberration because it has decreasing life expectancy, much higher rates of violence, paradoxically expensive and less effective healthcare, and a wider range of socioeconomics and lifestyles than other advanced economies. The US isn't "behind" so much as "falling" despite having every innate advantage apart from a political system that doesn't trade gold bars for votes from foreign countries.