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It's quite an achievement of modern medicine that the vast majority of early deaths in the U.S. now amount to various forms of "killing oneself", or occasionall
by nostrademons 1y ago
It's quite an achievement of modern medicine that the vast majority of early deaths in the U.S. now amount to various forms of "killing oneself", or occasionally "killing other people near you". Accidental, unpreventable acts of nature (or God, depending on your persuasion) have basically dropped out of the statistics.
I wonder how much of this is because of America's embrace of liberty. If you give people choices, some of them will inevitably make stupid choices.
- tptacek 1y agoIn particular, this points away from our health care system as a significant life expectancy causal factor. The biggest health-related contributor to life expectancy, by a long ways --- really, the only "big" one --- is CVD. But CVD deaths in Mississippi look nothing like CVD deaths in Connecticut, despite the same health care structure in both locales; Connecticut's CVD deaths look like Europe's, despite drastically different systems.