[Neoliberalnot]

A fine evaluation. The hard truth is hard to come by these days, since politics is a disease that infects all facets of our lives, and deaths in this case.

[kalee]

For later

[Mr. K]

Something like 90% of Canadians live within 50 miles of the USA border. For serious problems they come to the USA. I know nurses in Buffalo and Niagara Falls who see them all the time (we are very close to Canada)

I have a friend in Portugal who told me just this week how she was lucky she could get an MRI there FOR FREE! ... her appointment is in OCTOBER (5 months from now)
I told her I could get her (and her dog and her goldfish) an MRI this afternoon if she wanted one here (and it was already noon on Sunday)

I have a co-worker whose parents escaped Cuba. Sure you can get everything free there, but there is nothing available to get.

Why the hell are liberals THIS STUPID...?

[CatQuilt]

p4l

[NonValueAdded]

The heck with the wage gap, let’s talk about the longevity gap!

[KarlInOhio]

One other thing to look at is how infant mortality is calculated. The U.S. makes many heroic efforts to save premature and otherwise ill babies. If they take even one breath and then don’t survive they are counted as a live birth with a zero lifespan bringing down the average. Many countries will count those as the same as a stillbirth and not include them in mortality statistics which increases their average.

[Skooz]

bfl and bookmarked

[logi_cal869]

Abject garbage.

Any honest discussion on healthcare must address the cause of health decline in this country. Healthcare in the US is reactionary and getting worse. Mothers are now birthing diseased babies at an ever-increasing rate and the only reason the infant-mortality numbers went down was due to cessation of medically-induced labor, not improvements in prenatal care. Simply put, doctors don’t know what the hell they’re doing and some are abandoning the popular model. I engage with those between the ages of 70 & 90 on a daily basis; if quality of that “longevity” is not also taken into account then the numbers matter little.

Propaganda from a medical community beating its chest to shore up medical stocks. Not impressed.

And yes they f**ked up passing that health bill; shoulda left it around the neck of the dems, as anything they do matters little, but we have to keep pitting one side against the other, now don’t we?

[USS Alaska]

Life expectancy in Chicago is 12 years old.

[kosciusko51]

"Meanwhile, when looking at health outcomes that are the direct result of medical interventions — say, cancer survival rates — the U.S. does better than other industrialized nations."