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I get the feeling that Universal Healthcare (medicare for all) would probably level the difference? What else is responsible for the almost 4yr difference with e.g. France? Is it diet? Is the air/water worse in the US?
That means poorer countries tend to have worse healthcare, and less good outcomes.
Isn't it simply because of race?
While genetics might play a small role for very specific reasons (eg a society thats prone to sickle cell disease will likely live shorter), there’s no such difference in large, diversified populations like US/Europe.
It has always baffled me a bit that Europeans keep making this basic type error, by comparing individual European countries that were relatively cohesive and healthy until recently, to the whole of the USA that suffers from a whole host of benefits of diversity. Europeans simply have no understanding of the real America beyond what they see in movies or hear on Reddit. How could they, most people in America don’t even have a clue what America really is like due to endless barrages of propaganda from childhood on.
This has very little to do with location or genetics and everything to do with education and culture.
Isn't it simply because of race?
I get the feeling that Universal Healthcare (medicare for all) would probably level the difference? What else is responsible for the almost 4yr difference with e.g. France? Is it diet? Is the air/water worse in the US?
https://www.nationhoodlab.org/the-regional-geography-of-u-s-...
Spot the "democratic socialist" countries.
Switzerland appears to have the highest of them all, and certainly isn’t socialist, although it’s definitely democratic.
I get the feeling that Universal Healthcare (medicare for all) would probably level the difference? What else is responsible for the almost 4yr difference with e.g. France? Is it diet? Is the air/water worse in the US?
Food, I believe it's obvious. France obesity rate is also lower than the US. Large portion of americans eat like they have free healthcare.
What shocked me about the US when I went, was how much peptobismol people chugged down. There was not one meal in my 1 week stay there that I could digest without issue.
I get the feeling that Universal Healthcare (medicare for all) would probably level the difference? What else is responsible for the almost 4yr difference with e.g. France? Is it diet? Is the air/water worse in the US?
Much of europe does have universal healthcare, but it is done internally to each european country . That means poorer countries tend to have worse healthcare, and less good outcomes.
It’s much more than money.
I get the feeling that Universal Healthcare (medicare for all) would probably level the difference? What else is responsible for the almost 4yr difference with e.g. France? Is it diet? Is the air/water worse in the US?
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/americans-die-younger-than...