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That sounds about right, if you ignore disparity of access to treatment, and look narrowly at the quality of the treatment itself. 25 million Americans do not h
by t0mpr1c3 5mo ago
That sounds about right, if you ignore disparity of access to treatment, and look narrowly at the quality of the treatment itself. 25 million Americans do not have health insurance.
Looking just at treatable mortality (so not preventable deaths from cars and guns) the international ranking of mortality statistics changes only slightly. USA remains below the OECD average, behind comparably rich nations, down among middle income nations like Peru.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/health-at-a-glance-2023_7a7afb35-en/full-report/avoidable-mortality-preventable-and-treatable_e7407977.html#title-ab071a3f22 https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/health-at-a-glance-2023...
- tptacek 5mo agoI don't know what you're showing me here. This is a table ranking all causes of avoidable death, which includes things like gunshot wounds.
- t0mpr1c3 5mo agoEnough sealioning. There are two charts. One is avoidable deaths. The other is treatable deaths. It doesn't matter which definition you use, USA is near the bottom of the table.
- tptacek 5mo agoIf you'd like to disengage, simply disengage. Incivility hurts your argument. Obviously, the US leads on avoidable deaths! We have huge numbers of car accidents, homicides, and drug overdoses. We also have huge amounts of CVD, but as I explained above, that's a regional phenomenon and the health care systems are the same in both kinds of regions. You keep coming back with data that begs the question.