I Just Told You They're Killing You: Here's More Proof You're Living In A Third World Shithole

In the item directly below I clearly stated the police & Jeff Bezos want you dead, get them first. Now it's right-wing, small gummint policies. Defend yourselves. You have to fight, IYKWIM, AITYD.

In 2013, a research team comprised of some of the nation’s top epidemiologists and demographers compared the health of Americans with the health of people in other high-income nations. They summarized their findings in the report’s title: “U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health.”

Compared to 16 other nations, the U.S. ranked dead last in life expectancy for males and second-to-last for females. Beyond that, the nation ranked at or near the bottom in nine broad areas, including injuries and homicides, drug-related deaths, heart disease, and diabetes. Lung disease was both more common and more deadly in the U.S. than in most of the comparison countries, while older adults were more likely to have arthritis than people in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Japan. The U.S. surpassed all other nations in its rate of infant death. It had the highest rate of new AIDS cases. American young people were more likely than their international peers to die in traffic accidents.

A “catalog of horrors,” as a writer at the Council on Foreign Relations summed up the report. Newspaper coverage included words like “stunned” and “surprised.” “It is now shockingly clear that poor health is a much broader and deeper problem than past studies have suggested,” read an editorial in The New York Times.

Since the report’s publication,  the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Health Organization, and others have continued to document the ongoing slide in U.S. health compared to other countries. “As bad as things were then, they’ve only gotten worse,” said Steven Woolf, a physician and public health researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University who chaired the panel of experts behind the Shorter Lives study.

Indeed, as of 2019, the U.S. ranked 36th in the world in terms of life expectancy at birth, behind Slovenia and Costa Rica, not to mention Canada, Japan, and all the rich countries in Europe. And new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in December found that, although White people living in the nation’s highest-income counties have better health outcomes than the average U.S. citizen, even they fare worse on infant mortality, maternal mortality, and deaths after heart attacks than the average citizens of Norway, Denmark, and other developed countries.

In retrospect, the 420-page report was a harbinger of things to come, and many experts now say it foreshadowed the U.S. experience with Covid-19. “The abysmal performance of the U.S. — leading the world in death counts and unable to mount the kind of national response that so many peer nations achieved — adds a fresh twist to the U.S. health disadvantage,” Woolf said.

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The troubling portrait of America’s health did not spur action to paint a better one. Two presidential administrations have ignored it, as has Congress, mirroring a lack of interest shown by the wider public. Still, some social scientists have not stopped asking: What’s causing the U.S. health disadvantage? Recent work points to a surprising culprit: conservative policies.

This idea stems from a new line of research focusing on individual states, rather than the country as a whole, which has found that states with more liberal policies have longer life expectancy rates than those with more conservative policies. If all states adopted policies similar to those of Hawaii, for example — including on labor, tobacco, and the environment — U.S. life expectancy would increase to such an extent that it would be on par with other high-income countries, according to Jennifer Karas Montez, a sociologist at Syracuse University and lead author of the new research.

Well. Is it time conservative statehouses were liberated & forced to take proper care of their residents? Or will assassination of legislators who vote to deny health care to their voters be enough? Just spitballin', ha ha. (See you in the secret chat room. The password is "MTG2024!") 

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Language question: W/ the dissolution of the Soviet Union into oligarchic Russia & China's descent into state capitalism, is there even a "Second World"? Should these United Snakes & all the other former colonies move up to Second World?