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That's based on our life habits, not on health care. That's crazy talk.
by personomas 3y ago
That's based on our life habits, not on health care. That's crazy talk.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoRight, our life expectancy is shorter because of life choices, so it can't tell us anything about healthcare quality.
- gmerc 3y agoLack of accessible healthcare and medical bankruptcy as one of the primary drivers of financial failure and old age poverty is not life choices. Gun death as a leading cause of youth deaths is not life choices. PFAS exposure is not life choices. A medical system that allows advertisement and more or less open bribery leading to an opioid crisis that’s killing enough people to bring down life expectancy across the midwest is not life choices. Ineffective pandemic management by the government is not a life choice. Obesity is a boogeyman, but it has been around for long enough that the recent significant drops in life expectancy cannot be blamed on it. And even obesity is likely not a pure life choice, food quality and regulation of food supply play a vital role. I always found it amusing that we pump estrogen / hormone affecting chemicals into things and then give people a hard time if they have gender identity challenges and call it a life choice despite all the science to the contrary. Life choices are a catch all diversion, a fairy tale people tell themselves to feel like they have power to avoid the horror.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoMany of these are actually life choices. American addiction to guns tells us nothing about healthcare quality. Either way, I'm not saying our healthcare quality is better than other countries, I'm just saying you can't say it's worse by just looking at life expectancy because of confounders.