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Median income is not much lower in Utah than in California. Utah's low healthcare spending per capita is likely a reflection of Utah having the lowest median ag
by laurencerowe 8mo ago
Median income is not much lower in Utah than in California. Utah's low healthcare spending per capita is likely a reflection of Utah having the lowest median age of any state. Most healthcare costs are spent on elderly people.
I should add though that life expectancy is affected at least as much by social policy as by healthcare spending. Much of the difference is a result of cars/guns/drugs killing more people earlier in life in the US than in Europe.
- trimethylpurine 8mo agoDoesn't seem like big correlation in this case. Violent crime rate is roughly double in California compared with Utah.
- laurencerowe 8mo agoWhile Utah has a lower homicide rate than California (2.2 vs 5.1 per 100k) like many rural states it has a much higher suicide rate (21.5 vs 10.1 per 100k). Accident mortality (mostly overdoses and car accidents) are similar (49.7 vs 51.1 per 100k). https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/homicide.html https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/homicide.html https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/suicide.html https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/suicide.html https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/accidents.html https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/accidents.html More on the drivers of lower life expectancy in US here: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/what-drives-differences-in-life-expectancy-between-the-u-s-and-comparable-countries/ https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/what-dr...
- trimethylpurine 8mo agoAll really interesting stuff. Thanks.