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China Overtakes US For Healthy Lifespan, WHO Data Finds (reuters.com)
According to World Health Organization data, China has overtaken the United States in healthy life expectancy at birth for the first time. The data from 2016 finds Chinese newborns can look forward to 68.7 years of healthy life ahead of them, compared with 68.5 years for American babies. "American newborns can still expect to live longer overall -- 78.5 years compared to China's 76.4 -- but the last 10 years of American lives are not expected to be healthy," reports Reuters. From the report: The United States was one of only five countries, along with Somalia, Afghanistan, Georgia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, where healthy life expectancy at birth fell in 2016, according to a Reuters analysis of the WHO data, which was published without year-on-year comparisons in mid-May. The best outlook was for Singaporean babies, who can count on 76.2 years of health on average, followed by those in Japan, Spain and Switzerland. The United States came 40th in the global rankings, while China was 37th. In terms of overall life expectancy China is also catching up with the United States, which Reuters calculations suggest it is on course to overtake around 2027. Meanwhile U.S. life expectancy is falling, having peaked at 79 years in 2014, the first such reversal for many years.
"The United States came 40th in the global rankings"
How does this sit with the USA #1 crowd? I like to read those OECD comparison charts and it seems the US has been continually falling over the last few decades across every type of political leadership. Can this be fixed?
Just wait until the mass of Chinese can afford to eat 3 meals a day. Then we'll see what the stats say.
They also put it in reverse and back over you. https://www.google.com/amp/amp...
Have you ever lived in China? Western "high fat" diet? I think you mean Western "high carb" diet. Chinese diets are filled with both, however: tons of rice and oil. Chinese likely eat significantly less animal fats than in the USA, but the food in China is full of fat (as food should be). Also, even with all the rice, a lack of eating processed foods likely means the Chinese still eat significantly fewer carbs as calories than in the USA.
Yes, isn't it interesting that Obamacare resulted in healthy life expectancy in the U.S. going down?
However, the GP post was not referring to the U.S. number being deflated. They were referring to the probability that China's number was significantly inflated.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
Maybe, just maybe, for profit capitalistic health care isn't working. Americans pay double for worse outcomes than socialized systems. Many can't afford it, and the insurance middle men take in 800 billion a year with 100 billion in unnecessary salaries, expenses, and profits. The system rewards treatments for conditions and not cures or prevention. This is the biggest reason why the US is so far behind Slovenia, and why it will never be #1.
> Not to mention US police kill more people than criminals do in some countries, and more school kids have been killed this year than military...
Unless there's a war going on, why should the military be that dangerous?
The real problem with your "zinger" is that it demonstrates that Americans have gotten entirely accustomed to being in a state of constant war. Kids that die in uniform tend to be not much older than school age.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
No, it didn't. It took TWO YEARS for the Dow to go up from 19,827 to 25,075. It took from the day before Trump's inauguration day to the second anniversary of his inauguration day. As you say, it was a rise of 26 percent.
Did you know that over the exact corresponding period of time, from the day before his inauguration to the second anniversary of his inauguration, Under Obama the Dow went up 33 PERCENT? In fact, if you check the Dow on March 9, 2009 at the very depth of the Great Recession, you will notice that by the second anniversary of Obama's term the Dow rose an astonishing 61 percent.
No, it does not. It's well over 1000 points off its high. Also, did you know that the Dow resided in "record territory" for the entire second term of Barack Obama's presidency?
[Note: I am figuring out where the Trump supporters are getting this myth that the the Dow rose 26% in two days after Trump's inauguration. It is from a misreading of the big, wet baby's own tweet. The only problem is, in Trumpistan they get every single fact wrong, including the day the tweet was issued. see below]
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
And here, you can look at the Dow history yourself to check for yourself.
You are welcome on my lawn.