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Luigi save us

For-profit healthcare is extortion and murder.

Don't expect that to get any better know that Muskie wants to cut Medicare.

A lot of this is because people don’t go to the doctor when they start feeling bad, either because of fear or, more commonly, because of worries about money. So the illness progresses and delayed treatment means worse outcomes.

If we consider the ultimate outcomes of healthspan and lifespan with a population then access to care and quality of care contributes 20% to that total. The other 80% comes from social and environmental determinants of health. Look around where is the funding in your area going!

Don't forget the push to amend child labor laws. Add the children back into the workforce in the hazardous jobs, cut out the Department of Education.

Ah, the important money donors, who order laws and contracts. At first I understood the organ donors. But they are below the serfs.

Glad somebody else gets it. I've been threatening to write an article or a book on the subject. Hoard wealth, crash the economy, buy up all the property and businesses, establish a privileged class that controls both government, and impoverish the working class. Then confer titles: Baron, Duke, etc.

The real lesson, it's going to take well more than just one.

I blame the Iowa primary, shameless politicians who don't give a damn about the health of people pandering to corn farmers with subsidies to poison the food supply with syrup. The fentanyl dealers of agriculture.

Life expectancy in the US is set to increase over the next 30 years, but at a Slower rate than other countries, causing the country's GLOBAL RANKING TO DROP from 49th in 2022 to 66th in 2050. www.healthdata.org/news-events/....

*gestures vaguely towards recent events*

And people in 65 countries and territories still outlive Americans! Tell me again how great the U.S. health care system is. #SocializeHealthcare #MedicareForAll

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Attribute to the toxins in our food, air and water supply. Corporations have made this country a toxic soup of suffering so they can make $$$.

That's because American money chases lots of things. Healthcare. Junk foods. Overtime and night shifts. Cars - electric or internal combustion powered. Caffeine. Booze. Cigarettes. Guns. Our consumptive habits work at cross-purposes, fueled by greed and aided by marketing and other disciplines.

Health care is expensive blood work checkups lab work etc got bills insurance paid and still have to pay.

This is just shameful

Read the ingredients listed on the products that you buy. So many chemicals; and other crap that we don’t need.

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Bit of a poorly written lede that as US life expectancy has dropped in the past 5 years AND is lower than comparable countries. Eg for 2022 USA is 77.4 years, UK is 82, Canada 81.2

This is food for thought!

Mmmmm ... don't need a report to state the obvious ...

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I knew that Russiam Novichok Pizza Parlor was up to something shady 😅😅😅

Just keep treating the symptoms until it becomes critical. Sorry we don’t cover that though 🤷‍♂️

Shout out to my chronic illness buddies! I think we set the record of being ill pretty much 24/7. Jokes help me cope so no disrespect. #ChronicIlness #Disabled #POTS #hEDS. But yeah, those statistics are not good. We need to get rid of a lot of processed foods for one.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tosted to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door” and then we lock it so you stay that way and we can further take advantage of you.

Duh!

Well it takes a whole year to get a first appointment and that one then refers you out, likely to the wrong place/dr so that can be another year waiting for corrections. I’m currently in yr 2 of just trying to get to the right person. It’s just a game and only the fittest get to a dr who will help.

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Hmm is it maybe poorly regulated vulture capitalism?!

Yeah our longevity is actually decreasing

RFK Jr. has been given the responsibility to CLEAN UP the food industry. First time any administration has actually declared war on this problem!

Yes I'm proof of that

We have the wrong systemic design. Our healthcare system is designed to maximize financial returns for providers, not the health of our population. Curing people may matter to many involved in the process but it’s not the primary design objective of our system.

This is why raising the retirement age is just plain inhumane!

That's not a good thing, to be wasting away at the slowest rate. Do we want quality or quantity?

It's almost like people can't afford to go to the doctor

look at the data. We spend 10x every other country on healthcare. We are 49th best life expectancy. Explain this.

Because healthy doesn't make a profit.

That’s because Americans are obese and eat a crap ton of junk

The US seriously needs to fix its healthcare system. Europe’s public infrastructure is miles ahead, and it’s wild that people in the world’s biggest economy don’t have access to top-tier healthcare. Even India and China are doing better with public healthcare. It’s honestly embarrassing.

As long as health industries see patients as profit centers we will remain a country to sustain the super rich.

Luigi did nothing wrong

Because of republicans.

Longevity means little without vitality. This study reminds us to prioritize not just years of life, but the quality of those years. Small changes, like movement, mindfulness, and whole foods, add up. Invest in your health today. Your future self will thank you. 🌱

I guess eating at McDonald's thrice weekly isn't as benign as one would hope.

A few episodes of “food wars” (YouTube) - particularly food ingredient lists - reveals one source of differentiation. Surprising how many ingredients/practices banned outside the US for health reasons, are prevalent there. (May not be contributory of course).

lol live longer than who? Their longevity is now what 47th in the world. They certainly aren’t living as long as any other rich nation in the world.

Ultra processed foods

Better for big pharma to keep you on their drugs rather than fix the actual issue

True

And the unwillingness to STOP SHOVELING fast foods into our bodies❗️

Well, don't expect any of that to happen in the next 4 years.

Of course we do.

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More profit made Invest in poisoning people And health care Synchronize

"Live longer" than what? Hamsters?

Well now, you don't want to kill the golden-egg-laying goose quick, do you?

Thats because treating symptoms is much more profitable than curing illness. There is no incentive in our system to cure people. Think about that.

Sick and for many in debt.

It’s because our healthcare system is being held hostage by monstrous Republicans.

Well that way you can milk them longer

Look at what is different in US food ingredients and our air requirements. Of course we’re sick!

Lucrative… 🤣

As awful & expensive as US health care system is, it isn’t the key determinant of Life Expectancy. The Lancet "The risk factors contributing most to the gap in life expectancy were smoking (19·8% among men and 18·9% among women), low income (9·7% and 13·4%), and high bodyweight (7·7% and 11·7%)”

No money - no cure They just voted for the same BS. Again.

Live longer? By what, a few weeks? Do we live longer than we did in 2019? American processed food is killing us, and the medical and pharm industry is there to keep us going, sort of. Unfettered Capitalism at its worst.

Lack of universal health care is one factor, another is lifestyle. Suggesting cycling - for instance - as a valid component of an urban transit system is to invite (sometimes very) angry responses.

They also live shorter lives than citizens of other developed nations.

So here I am, 72 years old, just shy of the average life expectancy of US men. I have no desire to outlive my health. Live longer but bedridden and brain-addled? No thank you.

This is not news. We the people get screwed over regular & it’s our fault according to the Nazi regime

Thank big pharma for that.

Because of our food and medication

CEOs don’t care, our lawmakers don’t care. They only care about max profits.

Europe:

difference between 'lifespan' and 'healthspan' (thank you @peterattia.bsky.social ) - perhaps medicine can focus on wellness and preventive actions rather than waiting for illness and infirmity.

Meditation is the answer. Check out Dr Joe Dispenza’s work.

I’m sick of American politics. Does that count in the numbers?

So true, you retire, then spend your time with doctor appts constantly. The American diet and lack of exercise and sleep.

Is anyone really surprised we are so sick in the US? Corporations poison the air and water with impunity. The FDA let's the food industry get away with selling carcinogens in grocery stores. Then the healthcare industry makes it impossible to get the care we need. All for profit.

But socialism is really really really bad ... dumbasses

We have to stay sick longer so there is more rich people's yacht money to support our nearly destitute billionaire class

And in the news: Water is wet.

We don’t live longer than other developed countries tho.

Wow that's sounds alarm bells 🔔

Interesting. Never thought of it this way before, but what if big pharma and the insurance companies are feeding us just enough low grade drugs to keep us alive long enough so they can bleed us dry with medical bills? It would make a good sci-fi horror film.

Look at the S they put in their bodies, and couch humping as exercise doesn't quite cut it!

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I was going to argue that we're still healthy but my arthritis started acting up and I got tired, so I took a nap instead.

Nope! 🫠

Big win for the pharmaceutical industry

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And this is why the age for full social security elegability must not be raised to 70.

Could this have anything to do with being diagnosed by doctors in thrall to health insurers?

The great American health system! Haha! GOP Only going to increase mortality by killing Medicare and Social Security

Not a healthcare model to be adopted elsewhere then!

Nigel Farage loves the USA model and wants it in UK! All about the ££££

More profit in treating symptoms than curing disease

Point taken.

'Treatment' NOT cure.

Keep in mind it's a competitive industry. A more effective treatment outcompetes others & profits the developer. There are many pharma companies & indepent researchers, many in universities funded by the government, with findings publicly available. Efficacious treatment is profit-incentivized.

I cannot read the article. Do they provide any reasons behind the facts?

It is a sick system of "healthcare" in the USA.

Hmmm. A system that’s built on profit. Why would you think that there’s motivation to make people healthy?

We are not living longer.

Gee, I wonder why.

This is what I think of each time I hear some bozo wanting to raise the minimum age - if we can't afford healthcare now, how on earth is pushing the retirement age up going to help anyone? Raising the income cap from the absurdly low $160k is the only sane, obvious answer.

Welp, when your Food isn't Drug Administrations are combined, you wonder if we are just a science experiment for financial gain.

This is because most Americans hate working, cooking, cleaning, living in the world. They’re too privileged and egomaniacal.

With our toxic food supply and big pharma pushing incompetent doctors to shove dangerous drugs down our throats, I wonder if that's the problem 🤔

Only in America…. 62% of all bankruptcies are a result of health care costs. Most people can’t afford to be treated for treatable issues www.amjmed.com/article/S000...

This is my point. If you are lucky enough to have access to healthcare there are options and treatments and procedures available here that are not available in most of the world. The trouble is most of us can’t get it because insurance companies deny the benefits.

We need Medicare for all, but greedy billionaires won't let it happen.