Americans Are Seriously Sick

jd writes "A study by US and British researchers on frequency of illnesses shows that even when you compare like groups in the US and the UK, people in the US are considerably sicker than their counterparts in the UK. This is after factors such as age, race, income, education and gender were taken into consideration. The most startling conclusion was that although the richest Americans were better off than the poorest Americans, they did no better (health-wise) than the poorest of the English. Previous studies of the entire population had shown similar results, with America placing around 25th amongst industrialized countries on chronic disease prevention, but it had been assumed that minorities and economics were skewing the results. This study suggests that maybe that isn't the case."

Comments

Re:Answer is easy.

[sco08y]

Statutory minimum annual leave plus public holidays

That info is useless. What's the average time off for a worker in the US vs. one in the UK?

Re:Assumed by whom?

[iogan]

but since thay have no proper pubic heathcare, those differences matter a lot more

So that's why they shave it off?!