What's driving this considerable decline is, per the CDC, primarily the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. That's perhaps not surprising since the US has the most extensive caseload and death toll worldwide. But it's essential to also note that US life expectancy had been plateauing since before the pandemic due to "unintentional injuries," liver disease, suicide, and preventable illnesses.
Now, America is on pace to drop out of the top 50 nations in life expectancy. One key factor is that every country above it has a public option for health insurance or a publicly funded healthcare system. Could there be a correlation?
Well, a new poll that came out Monday from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that less than half of Americans believe their healthcare system is handled well. Only 12% said it's dealt with extremely or very well. The solution: 40% support a single-payer public healthcare system, and 58% support a public option.
It's not hard to see why Americans feel this way when health outcomes in the country are so poor, meanwhile having one of the most expensive healthcare systems in the world. And it's not just older adults or the immunocompromised, e.g., those at greatest risk for Covid-19 who are exposed to America's poor health outcomes, as I mentioned earlier.
Another valuable metric for understanding the health impact of the pandemic and other factors on how long Americans live is called 'years of life lost' (YLL). One preprint study called 'Missing Americans: Early Death in the United States, 1933-2021' found that "half of all deaths under 65 years and 91% of the increase in under-65 immortality since 2019 would have been avoided if the U.S. had the mortality rates of its peers."
It puts forward the conclusion that the US has a much higher mortality rate among children and working-age adults than peer countries, sometimes at a rate of even three times higher. Moreover, the paper found that even if excess deaths from Covid-19 were eliminated, the US would still have more excess deaths than comparable countries because of unintentional injuries and preventable diseases. This all contributed to a total YLL in 2021 of 25 million years, mostly on the back of younger people dying prematurely.
There is much to say about the myriad public health issues facing America, including the opioid crisis, the gun violence epidemic, and widespread obesity. All of these require a robust public health and public policy response to tackle adequately. But clearly, the lynchpin that would fit all of these pieces together is a working healthcare system that produces adequate results for its cost and is accessible.
As I mentioned before, Americans are paying far too much for far too little in terms of treatment. But then there's a significant amount of people that just don't have access to healthcare. For example, some young people don't visit the doctor because they assume they're young and healthy. Sometimes those people end up having emergencies that land them in the hospital anyway.
The problem is that preventative medicine is extremely important for ensuring people don't end up in the emergency room or with major disabilities - and the American healthcare system fails. This is evident by yet another metric, healthy average life expectancy (HALE), which measures how long someone can expect to live without disability. As of a 2019 report by the World Health Organization, the US has the lowest HALE of any high-income country at just over 66 years of age.
Again, Americans are dying younger than their peers, they are more likely to die in their healthy years from preventable causes, and are developing disabilities at a younger age. On top of this, they have more expensive and less accessible healthcare. Is it any wonder so many of them are unhappy with their healthcare system? It's well past time to reform it.
Bradley Blankenship is an American journalist, columnist and political commentator. He has a syndicated column at CGTN and is a freelance reporter for international news agencies including Xinhua News Agency. Follow him on Twitter @BradBlank_
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1. ladies, if you have a lump, a mammography will smash it, causing cells to move into lymph system, instant metastasis ... and if you don't have a lump, and want to keep track of things, ultrasound or, ideally, thermography, as regular mammograms = guaranteed cancer.
2. Ladies and gents, avoid colonoscopies ... bet you didn't know that 1 in 20,000 procedures results in a lifelong colostomy bag!!!! From accidental tear. Not to mention known routes of infection (not all of the machinery can be adequately sterilized!), and ... turns out, almost all cancer is in the intestinal lining, AND not in the polyps they remove!
Another lesson I've picked up through horror stories: if you experience pleurisy, which often requires at least a day in hospital, assume it is secondary to cancer growth somewhere. And start treating yourself as if you had cancer, because often the diagnosis won't come for another 2 years post pleurisy!!! And even though xray techs will recognize it as such, your doctor will not tell you about the high rate of correlation!
I think anyone with a pair of working brain cells can figure out why they try to ban alternative medicine of any kind.
Sad thing is, most people have never noticed. They consider it fine to swallow a handful of pills every day, they don't give a second thought to side effects until they occur, seeing their doctor as some godly being that is all-knowing and only wishes well for them instead of own wallet.. I guess it couldn't be any other way, unless people stop paying attention to all the "authority" and "science" crap.. There IS authority and there IS science, but it is only in TRUTH, all else is a fraud. And "mass awakening" doesn't happen by itself, you've got to fit the message in three minute viral clip endorsed by celebrities for the sheeple to even notice
Explains what all we've got is "WOKE", they've awakened into a TPTB-induced slumber and can't be red-pilled in any other way than by PAIN.. Most went straight for it and took all the jabs necessary, I "admire" their "courage"
Pfizer’s figures for the new vax versus the old vax prove that the old vax did not work against Omicron. Pfizer’s bivalent versus monovalent trial results shows that one shot (30ug) of the old vaccine destroys 44% of your Covid19 antibodies in 30 days. Since one is not considered boosted until 14 days after the shot, it follows that the old boosters were never vaccines, they were always anti-vaccines, having a negative efficacy by day 14. Most Pfizer vaccinations taken by the majority of humans on the planet prior to September 2022, have systematically destroyed their immune response at an initial rate greater than 1% per day (44% in 30 days). Most Pfizer-vaccinated people now have VAIDS, and winter is coming.
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The ones at the top of the medical pyramid are only in it for the money and the feeling of playing god. The ones at the bottom are simply regurgitating what they've been spoon fed, unable to think independently lest they lose their positions. The drug companies run the healthcare casino and the hypocratic oath is out the window.
No leaving anything to any of our kids. If I invest anything I might save it is just going to be confiscated.
The US is a fucking shithole. You got that much right.
Get well??? T hat's not even true any more. You often come out with something worse than what you went in with. If nothing else MRSA
Edit: you've probably consulted a lawyer and been through all this. Really crappy 😕
As for real property, anything I sell I need to notify them of the proceeds so they can take their cut at a later date, IF her name is also on it.
The US healthcare system sucks shit, is too expensive, and the hospitals cover up when their doctors kill people which happens quite often.
No more explanation is necessary.
Medical professionals have lost the meaning & purpose of their oath their shame
Medical Definition of Hippocratic Oath [Link]
Note: Classic version was & had far, far better meaning. The PTB replaced Asclepius with Hermes.
― Ted Kaczynski, The Unabomber Manifesto: A Brilliant Madman's Essay on Technology, Society, and the Future of humanity.
“The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.”
― Ted Kaczynski, The Unabomber Manifesto: A Brilliant Madman's Essay on Technology, Society, and the Future of Humanity
operation warp speed, right, to speed things up ffs.. evil as evil can do..
MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE EXHIBITING STRANGE BEHAVIORS THEN DYING IN THE SAME MYSTERIOUS WAY.
ALL VACCINE RELATED, MEDIA AS USUAL, FAIL TO REPORT, THEY HIDE, AS THE MAGGOT BENDING TRUTHERS THEY BE.
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More than a hundred years ago, Rudolf Steiner wrote the following:
"In the future, we will eliminate the soul with medicine. Under the pretext of a 'healthy point of view', there will be a vaccine by which the human body will be treated as soon as possible directly at birth, so that the human being cannot develop the thought of the existence of soul and Spirit.
To materialistic doctors, will be entrusted with the task of removing the soul of humanity. As today, people are vaccinated against this disease or disease, so in the future, children will be vaccinated with a substance that can be produced precisely in such a way that people, thanks to this vaccination, will be immune to being subjected to the "madness" of spiritual life. He would be extremely smart, but he would not develop a conscience, and that is the true goal of some materialistic circles.With such a vaccine, you can easily make the etheric body loose in the physical body. Once the etheric body is detached, the relationship between the universe and the etheric body would become extremely unstable, and man would become an automaton, for the physical body of man must be polished on this Earth by spiritual will. So, the vaccine becomes a kind of Ahirmanic force; man can no longer get rid of a given materialistic feeling. He becomes materialistic of constitution and can no longer rise to the spiritual." - Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925)
What's more absurd - I know a person that's been studying and talking about Steiner for years before Covid came, guess what? He's vaxxed too.. I think reading alone doesn't help when people are unable to grab the point and make any use of it in real life.
Pretty much all has been known long before vaccines arrived on the scene, yet that didn't stop up to 100% vaxxed people in many places.. Jacques Attali talked about vaccine/virus depopulation in the 80's.. Bill Gates had many famous remarks about it and STILL the majority has proven to be little more than unthinking cattle. I understand why it makes elites think they're correct with their worldview.. It all seems hopeless from this angle.
But I guess it was never about the quantity, but more about the quality of those surviving.. I don't think "all is lost" then. But it won't be easy, that's for sure.
A straightforward unpolitical orientated quick assay of what core of institutions in America’s Western culture has been completely decimated. No specific order.
Education
Medical
Justice
Entertainment / MSM
Military
I don’t be-LIE-ve in coincidences like these.