Posted on 04/05/2023 11:30:02 AM PDT by Retain Mike
By 2019, prior to COVID, life expectancy in the U.S. had fallen relative to that in the other countries so much that 500,000 Americans were dying each year in excess of the death rates of the citizens of those other countries. To exclude poverty as a factor in these numbers, a study looked at the health of privileged Americans—specifically, white citizens living in counties that are in the top one percent and the top five percent in terms of income. This high income population had better health outcomes than other U.S. citizens, but it still had worse outcomes than average citizens of the other developed coun tries in such areas as infant and mater nal mortality, colon cancer, childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia, and acute myocardial infarction.
Now combine this with the fact that we in the U.S. are paying an enormous excess over those other countries on health care. In the U.S., we spend on average $12,914 per person per year on health care, whereas that figure in the other comparable countries is $6,125. That comes to $6,800 more per per son—and if you multiply that by 334 million Americans, we are spending an excess $2.3 trillion a year on health care—and getting poorer results.
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In a typical distortion of reality by Congress, "Big Pharma" is referred to as a small business.
Nothing’s “broken” until you try to help it.
Any health care system built on the absurd notion that people can compel other people to pay their medical bills is doomed to fail.
If you get laid off or $hit canned its expensive. It costs you $2,800 per month for health coverage. Plantation has you by the Trump hairs.
We're fat. Obesity kills you a lot quicker than the best health care can fix you. For longevity's sake you're better off being skinny in some third world chithole like Cuba with little to no health care than obese in the U.S. Preaching at people to "move more and eat less" doesn't work, our food is sugar laden garbage that's killing us.
Our entire government is bought and paid for by insurance companies and big pharma, which in some cases are one and the same. We pay many times what other countries do for drugs, for example I'm on a medicine that's $1600 a month, in France that same medicine is $88 a month. There's no way to defend that pricing, it's just price gouging because they can but nobody will stand up to the gougers. Trump wanted to crack down on drug companies for their price gouging and they did all they could to railroad him out of office. The most noticeable being they held the announcement of the Covid vaccines until after the election. Regardless of what you think of the Covid vaccines, at the time he stood to get a boost in the polls if the promised vaccines were announced, Pfizer and Moderna purposefully withheld the announcement until a week after the election to deny him a boost at the polls because he was threating their profits.
Obamacare: Only fools think it did anything to lower health care costs. As anyone other than welfare rats can tell you it almost instantly tripled our health care costs. That's because it was written by the insurance industry. Who wouldn't want the government dictating that everyone in the country has to buy your overpriced product? Meanwhile insurance companies got rich beyond belief, mega million dollar mansions and yacht sales soared for insurance executives.
So true. I wonder if there are any people who would look at what laws, procedures, and regulations to repeal?
I wish that were true. We're stuck with most of it. John McCain screwed us so hard that we're unlikely to ever recover.
It’s no problem for the illegals. I see them in my hospitals emergency room all the time. No insurance? No problema amigo.Los gringos el pagara! No problem friend , the gringos will pay’’.
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