Greatest healthcare system in the world hard at work

[ck4829]

[mitch96]

1. Like many have said, we have the most expensive healthcare in the world. But not the best

at keeping us alive the longest. Then again there is the quality of life. I don't want to be 90 and sitting in a nursing home drooling into my soup watching the weather channel..YMMV..
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[Farmer-Rick]

4. The US started to get worsening results for their healthcare dollars

Starting In 1975, when the GOPer Ford was president. I think he got a very Nixon like healthcare law implemented.

I understand from a nurse in the UK, who visits elderly people in their homes, that as the population lifespan increases, there are fewer people who are permanently bed ridden. People stay healthier up until the point of death at least in the UK.

Like my brother in law's Mom who was driving, going to the theater and lunching with the girls, up until she had a heart attack and passed away a day later at 89. That's how I want to go.

[mitch96]

5. Yup, People stay healthy up until the point of death otherwise known as ...

Die young as late as possible!! My aunt was the same. Very active, ate well still worked PT and died quick at 92 from a massive stroke. Did not feel a thing.. For me it's all about quality of life not quantity. Try to eat healthy, exercise and keep the mind working..
Works for me and I'm a geezer!!
Your health is like the 1 in $1,000,000. With out the 1 you are just left with a bunch of zeros.
ymmv
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[Celerity]

2. The graph is already outdated. The US will likely soon be spending

over 18,000 USD per capita on healthcare (2028 estimate). And that is with the current system. The Rethugs, if they regain power, will only serve to increase the rate of the systemic redistributionist wealth transfer from the many up to the few at the top of the pyramidion.

The US is currently spending around 13,500 USD per capita.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/934283/total-us-national-health-expenditure-projection/

Keeping the profit motive front and centre as a core, central, organising tenet for a basic human right is antihuman madness, as well as incredibly shit economics.

[mitch96]

6. The theme I see here is don't get sick. The health care system can't help much... Actually

they sould call it a "sick care" system. YMMV
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[c-rational]

3. Excellent graphic. This should be shown daily. Thanks for the post.

[fightforfreedom]

7. I know from experience our healthcare system is bad for your health. It can kill you.

It is fucking insane.

[AntivaxHunters]

8. It's a crime this country doesn't have single payer Medicare For All

It's enough!

[area51]

9. +1 n/t

[ck4829]

12. I think we really do have a mindset of "I can't be poor, I have contempt for poor people! How can...

I be poor if I myself am poor, huh? Huh?!"

[Hortensis]

10. The healthcare "system" we do NOT have is one of SEVERAL reasons

for lower life expectancy. Thinking is important. It makes us smart and keeps us from being used.

Failing to think is the #1, 2, and 3 reasons that people don't vote Democratic -- to work on all the serious reasons our average lifespans have been dropping.

It's also why we weren't the first in the world to have modern universal healthcare system. We had everything else it would have required.

[ck4829]

14. True. Not thinking is a major contributor.

[durablend]

11. It's ok, folks

You didn't need that money, right?

[rownesheck]

13. This chart is

very telling.

But seriously, do any of us really want to live into our 80s?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. Gee, look at that hard right turn about the time of Rotten Ronnie.