People in the U.S. die the youngest and experience the most avoidable deaths, despite spending much more on health care.
  • Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    271·
    3 months ago

    It’s also a bit weird that this is politically relevant in the US. I honestly don’t understand how my need for healthcare is a political stance.

        • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
          61·
          3 months ago

          Trump keeps making it political and also wants to massively cut taxes on the group of people who contribute the most in taxes that pay for the military - millionaires, billionaires, and major corporations. While also slashing healthcare for millions.

          Just like he did last time.

          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • trite_kitten@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 months ago

      But you see, it’s not a political stance because no one who even has a chance to win even remotely feels the need to offer that to their voters.

  • Myxomatosis@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 months ago

    I work in healthcare and I’m all for socialized medicine or Medicare for all. The corporate hospitals do not act in the best interests of the patients. Some of them (like HCA) are inherently evil. They cut staffing, resources, and supplies to the bone, constantly running on the thinnest of margins leading to dangerously unsafe conditions for patients. Not to mention doctors, providers, nurses, and other healthcare workers are getting completely burned out. This is so they can please the shareholders and the executives can get their fat bonuses. Americans pay so much for healthcare and get so little in return.

  • Glide@lemmy.ca
    14·
    3 months ago

    Canada posting higher on this report than the US, meanwhile the US constantly talks down on the quality of care in Canada, and conservatives use the Canada-US comparison to try and sell Canadians on privatized health care.

    Don’t worry US, at this rate you won’t be in last place for much longer.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    214·
    3 months ago

    I know US healthcare is in dire need of improvement, but I do have to find the choice of just 9 other cherry-picked countries to be an odd comparison. If this was rephrased as “US is #10 in healthcare globally”, I still wouldn’t buy that, but that’s essentially what this article seems to imply and doesn’t sound quite as negative as it should.

    • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      18·
      3 months ago

      but I do have to find the choice of 9 other cherry-picked countries to be an odd comparison.

      Just to be clear, the “cherry-picked” countries you think are an “odd comparison” are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
        121·
        3 months ago

        Might’ve been trying to make the point that adding a handful of other countries probably would’ve left us at the bottom again. Denmark, Spain, Belgium, South Korea, and Japan probably have us beat as well.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.world
        15·
        3 months ago

        I didn’t mean it in a dismissive way, but there’s a lot more countries than the Northwest Europe Privilege Corridor + their successful colonies. I just think there’s more to compare with that won’t leave the picture feeling so incomplete and Eurocentric.

        • harlatan@feddit.org
          2·
          3 months ago

          Which countries do you want it compared to? To me the selected make a lot of sense, all comparably rich and developed countries, where else would you find them. If you compare to poor underdeveloped countries, why compare at all. Be aware that from a euro perspective, not all of the selected are considered the cream of the crop, some are just plain mediocre, but that of course depends on the survey.

          • Stovetop@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, etc. Non-western countries who are also generally prosperous and are known for quality healthcare.

    • vividspecter@lemm.ee
      5·
      3 months ago

      It’s just a pretty typical comparison with rich, highly developed Western democracies. Considering the US has the highest GDP in the world, and also the country that spends the most on healthcare per capita, coming last is damning.