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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.
he is a terrible "president", worst ever. this is a well-known fact. and in the top 20 worst, perhaps, globally, in the entire history of this planet.
it is his party who is to blame, and as the president is considered the 'leader' of his or her party (steers policy and platform, is expected to be the standard-bearer, etc), it is by extension, the twit's fault as well. so congratulations. you were correct, simply amazing for a trumpette moron such as yourself.
China is also very well known for lying about things and faking stats to appear better than everyone else. It goes all the way from the local level with fake recycling bins that go straight to trash pickup to faking national statistics.
"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?
You don't know anything about swamps. Swamp experts say you have to flush out the old swamp with the new swamp before trying to drain it. We will have the best swamps, let me tell you. Swamping, swamping, swamp USA!
Just wait until the mass of Chinese can afford to eat 3 meals a day. Then we'll see what the stats say.
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.
You basically have a choice to return shareholder value or save lives but you certainly cannot have both. It's really simple to understand because if you run it for profit it becomes unaffordable for the poor. That is why we pay more for heathcare then anybody else in the world.
We have made our choice here to keep raking in profits over saving lives here so this problem is not going to get better in the near future.
Looking at my retirement funds, I'm certainly hoping I die in my sleep at age 78. Or maybe 75. I just can't be sure.
If the US health system were capitalistic, with producers open to competition in the global market and consumers free to form buying associations of whatever kind they wanted and buy from wherever they wanted, we would be much better off. Instead, we have this interlocking cartel of medieval guilds whose goal is to maximize the number of doubloons extracted from the peasants.
Meanwhile, in 2003 and in 2013 China made ground-up reforms to its medical regulatory system. Could we be seeing the first effects of this in healthcare delivery?
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.
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There is no such thing as a "free market", especially when it comes to health care.
If a doctor tells you you're going to need heart surgery, or your kid needs cancer treatment, you're not going to shop around for the best price. If lung is punctured in a car accident and you're bleeding internally, you're not going to shop for the least expensive alternative to an ambulance to take you to the hospital.
There is no free market alternative for health care.
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We all miss those glory days, brother.
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At least he kept two-faced Hillary out of the White House.
Sure, the cancer is bad, but at least I didn't get the flu!
You are out of touch with reality. The Dow shot up from 19,827.3 to 25,075.1 -- an increase of *26 percent* the day of (or day after) Trump's inauguration.
It is you who is out of touch with reality. When reality set in after one year of the the Trump presidency, the Dow promptly fell by 9%. The 2017 runnup was the holdover from the golden years of Obama's 2nd term (which did not include any global financial crisis caused by Republicans dismantling regulations). Then the reality of the Trump presidency set in, did I mention that?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Observation of healthcare worldwide over a 50 year period teaches us that the best "buyer clubs" for health care are run at the national level.
There has never been a successful profit-based "free market" health care system anywhere in the world.
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Trump was largely expected to remove government minders from business activity in conjunction with a massive reduction in corporate tax rate. This principally caused the market to become significantly overheated. As any investor with even moderate experience can tell you, a rapid rise is surely followed by a rapid descent otherwise known as "going parabolic". We experienced a taste of the descent already with a reversal in prices down to November levels. Currently institutional investors are busy selling back shares to corporations in one of the largest buybacks ever seen due to the misguided corporate tax rate cuts (did you folks really think it'd trickle down?). When the buybacks dry up I strongly suspect we'll see a much deeper correction in share prices. Strangely a certain group of people will still be singing his praise all while calling for Hillary's impeachment.
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In 1840, almost every hospital was non-profit. And the vast majority of health care in the US was not provided by hospitals or doctors. Sick people relied mostly on home remedies, midwives, local folk healers, or in the case of African Americans, the obeah or conjurer.
Here's an interesting little blurb about US health care in the 1800s that you might find interesting. Remember, this is an era that you're pointing to as a model ("individuals dealing with doctors")..
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