Why is American Life Expectancy Falling? - TLDR News 

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@@theoccasionalvideo thats why ubi's are so needed. A bit of money for poor people goes a long way as shown in the video, and the government has already tested this idea out with covid stimulus checks

@@Fr00stee I believe you’ve responded to the wrong comment by accident.

@@richiedockery looks like the comment i replied to got deleted

Why does that happen?

Unfortunately, some people don't have anyone who needs them. The culture my parents grew up in here their parts of the USA actually encourages those who "fail" (in other words, those who are poor) should rid themselves from society, for the betterment of all others. Don't keep taking, find a corner to die in so that the burden no longer exists. It's really sad. x_x

But their statistics show that the collegers ain’t the problem

@@prestondial1992 Exactly. We really should be analyzing why non-college educated Americans, especially whites, experience a large number of deaths of despair. Personally I think high tuition costs play a role in it because these Americans are not able to get an education since it is too expensive, and thus cannot find a good job afterwards.

Brilliant!

@@corygardner3752 well, community college is fairly affordable, and there is so much financial aid going around few people actually pay sticker price. I don’t think price of college is driving their despair, I would suspect it’s more the war on the poor rural culture and way of life that is causing this outcome

I though college debt in the USA persisted after death? It’s unlike other forms of debt in that way.

Lol. Imagine having to pay 2k for an ambulance. It is sad that europe starts to americanise more and more. Neoliberalism really is cancer to society, isn't it?

@m n Not directly through "texes" but through social programs. Money for taxes is used directly by the state to fund infrastructure and to SOME extend social programs. In other words: they are separated, you have to pay taxes and social programs though. Just wanted to make that clear, because they are mostly used for different things and also used by different institutions.

@m n Nothing is free, but you can imagine how much the price will be different, when one big player runs a nonprofit system or the private health care companies can only make contract with that one big player vs. big private healthcare companies make contract with powerless and poor individuals.

It'd take FAR too long to make a proper video about that.

@m n I could give some counter perspective to that since my family lives on 3 continents. For example in most jobs, there are different between expected French income minus taxes compared to average US income after taxes. I believe lowest 20% of income in US can consume as much as 50% of EU including the 40% premium that are paid by US customer. I will link the research on next comment so RU-vid won't block this comment, just in case. That means IF every single US citizen actually invested the difference of income they get compared to if they are living in France, when something happens chances they could (in theory) pay that number out of pocket or they could have get an insurance out of it with extra money to spare. Problem is most American has no saving and most of their assets are on car or home which when something bad happens you are forced to sell on much cheaper prices. This happened to my family personally, we can get insurance even AFTER the check up showed that we have cancer in US. The hardest part is actually losing your job while getting treatment. Sure it's not cheap, we know that IF you got sick in US you are pretty much screwed. There are also other option to leave US and get treatment somewhere else. As for myself, when I was young, for a decade I invested money that should have gone to healthcare (under the idea that young people rarely get sick) and by calculation it has grown into $300k and while I spend 200k, now I still have $100K and can afford complete insurance coverage. So it was gamble/investment gone well which could have been replicated by other US citizens (since we have disparities of income compared if we live in EU). On the flipside, that also means as a whole EU system is too expensive except the healthcare. So this is not to say that US health system is good (it's horrible) but it's more of a jab to EU governance, and as EU citizens we cannot get complacent and think they've done great job just because our healthcare is cheaper. We screwed up on many levels compared to US

Lol

No European ever understood Walter's motivation

Some cancer drugs are quite cheap. But no idea what the hospitals will overcharge for them in the USA

@@michaeljf6472 This American didn't either.

Dr. Eric Berg explains in his videos that cancer can be treatable (he interviewed an old bloke who had Stage IV cancer and managed to overcome it without hospitalization, every doctor told him it was impossible) basically with no invasive medications but it requires huge self discipline and determination. This is not a public knowledge because there is so much profit to be lost if people with cancer could be cured basically for free.

Boy are we dumb🤣🤣🤣

Well when you have as much diversity as we have... well you know what they say diversity is weakness

@@Robert-rw5lm That makes no sense.

We have weaknesses and strengths. If healthcare was easy to solve, it would have been done by now. It's easier to resolve in smaller, more homogeneous countries I'm sure you can name other weaknesses we have. Can you name strengths? I would say that innovation is one. Being able to determine your own destiny rather than being locked in by family history or tradition is another. It's not all bad...it's not all good.

@@Robert-rw5lm Nearly all of our scientific, medical, and technical advancements have come from immigrants. Homogeneity does not breed innovation or progress, it breeds tribalism and regression.

Completely correct! Add to that the fact, that those with no or inadequate health care, will postpone preventative and early treatment of illnesses cause they don't have the money to spare, allowing the problem to fester, until it's either too late, or a much more extensive, intrusive and expensive treatment is needed; which then in turn not only is much more dangerous to their health, but a much bigger and more sudden significant impact on their wealth.

Amurica fuck yeah

My sister just had to do a transplant, pretty sure we would be bankrupt as a family if we lived in the US. But since we live in Norway, all we have to worry about is how she is doing. And i must agree with people postponing doctors visits when they cost money. Like men in Norway are often more reluctant to seek out doctors than women. So they end up with health issues that fester for longer, conditions that go unoticed etc. More than women. But if you add a price ontop of that. Im sure men will pretty much have to be on deaths door to visit a doctor. The whole medical system needs an overhaul over there.

At a local level is even worse. If you compare countries/entities with hundreds of millions of inhabitants such as the EU and USA, most different average and you get a difference in life expectancy of two or three years. But at a local level, if you compare life expectancy in areas of the same city, it can vary more than 5 years depending on the income! And obviously this happens in Europe too, for example in Madrid.

And there are still nuts all over RU-vid who think that it $300 in taxes is more expensive than $10000 in medical bills.

and seeing what you worked for forty years waste way, then have everone point and blame you for everything, yes it is enough to kill a man, oh weight that's it.

and they are all related. Stress increases the risk for obesity. And the healthcare system (run by big pharma) promotes unhealthy lifestyles because that earns more money. Making healthcare universal, will force the government to promote healthy living because it will save them money. So universal healthcare might even lead to better work conditions. Better work/life balance. etc... Ofcourse some companies will try to prevent that happening at all costs because they don't want to lose their cash cow.

@@Robbedem how little you know, if losing the cash cow was what company carried for , then you would not have this problems, but that is not how it works. Do you know who fights the most against expanded health care, Hospitals, incorporated medical practices, and medical insurance Company's why because they can not make money, they in fact lose money with each patient they treat. also you can not force an American to eat or do anything he for what ever reason does not like to do. I have known people told to eat one way and gain up to ten years of life, do the complete opposite, just because they can. What are you going to do, have a nurse had feed every one, have a cop enforce slaid only buys at the supermarket, and a coach drive whole armies to fitness, not goin to happen.

Lack of healthcare is misleading

The problem is not really heath care in the late 19th and early 20th century's was almost non existent but American lived longer then Europeans, Americans were taller, longer lived heavier, and for more healthy than those in Europe. What happened well today Americans still eat like our grand parents, but work like we do know, not six and a half days a week from sun up to sunset eating 5000 calories and burring it off by hard work tending a farm or in a factory that worked just as long. Today a third of Americans eat 5000 calories and sit at desks all day and on couch all night playing Video games or watching's Game of thrones on T.V. and do not burn the calories off.

For sure, as any serious illness does. Heart disease is much more likely in obese people coupled with diabetes and low hormone production. Obesity is probably the biggest impediment for universal healthcare in the US outside of corporate retaliation, and a super serious problem that is being kinda ignored.

@@karhammer obesity is an impediment for universal healthcare, but it is also promoted by private healthcare. Big pharma can make more money when people are unhealthy. Because unhealthy people take more medication.

It's the main reason, which is why it's surprising the video doesn't mention it.

@@ethanmolinar1422 I assume that it is less significant than those listed. In ten minutes you can only list so many things.

Yes. Obesity is hard to overcome because it is largely based on lifestyle and dietary choices that require individuals to change ingrained daily habits or even their desk job, and for governments to regulate unhealthy habits. The US mentality of freedom as well as a belief that eating healthy is more expensive than eating unhealthy (which is wrong, but still widely believed) makes such change a hard sell, while government lacks the political will to regulate sugars or fats because officials could face backlash by food industries which hold economic influence and people who can vote officials out.

aka this is what happens when you follow the current American system

Murican dream

such a simple answer.

Destroy capitalism!

It's the same thing everywhere else, dude.

ah, but the Americans don't like taking lessons from foreigners. After all, America is the best at everything! Right? Right...

What truth? Income inequality so everyone just dies sooner? Guns are bad so people just kill themselves more? The Netherlands has income inequality on Earth and their life expectancy is just 81.8 years. Finland and Belgium have almost the same rate of suicide between 13 and 14 ppl per one hundred thousand, while Beligum has about a 1/3 of gun ownership compared to Finland. Not to mention South Korea whose population is basically unarmed and yet has a way higher suicide rate than the US.

“High levels of violent crime”. Boy oh boy you need to look at any country other than Europe or NA….

@@aryamanarora6131 Yes but this is a comparasion between USA and other developed countries, not between USA and the rest of the world. There are lots of countries with much lower life expectancies than USA

@@tessjuel a proper mic drop 🎤

@@tessjuel Maybe they're saying that the US is not a developed country? 🤔

I think the income disparity is key here. As medical insurance coverage is tied to jobs and is costly, even then, people are avoiding doctors and getting diagnosed later, limiting treatment options and driving costs up. Factor in the overdose crisis going on and the fall is actually understandable. Worse though, it should continue the trend.

Housing price bubble is happening internationally as well as stagnant wages in richer countries so I would not count them as factors in this comparison.

I’m not paying any higher taxes to fund any of that shit.Thank god for joe manchin and the filibuster

@@parthivdeb8033 I’m 90% sure none of those problems can be resolved with increasing taxes so that’s an unrelated reply

@@parthivdeb8033 i'd like to see your opinion on this matter if you get sick and go into debt due to medical costs

@@kairon5249 we wouldn’t cause we bothered to buy insurance

Don't forget how many US citizens cry "communism" when people demonstrate how a single payer system like England's NHS can save both them and the Government money in the long run. And the strong resistance to an actual livable minimum wage that many Americans have as well.

@@rodh1404 It's fascinating what drives people to want or reject certain things.

The health insurance industry is very good at convincing people (you and the politicians) not to change, they make far too much money at your expense.

@@WanderTheNomad Just tons of propaganda

Healthcare is cheap

Because of limited financial access to health services. Because America has a diabetes problem Because certain popular hobbies are high risk Because of the large homeless population Etc, etc

The freedom is just too intense.

'Murica

Should be Brexit's slogan

THE LAND OF THE FREE 🇺🇸

It’s not broken, it’s working exactly how the 1% designed it to work. They want to milk as much money as possible out of us to line their own pockets, at the cost of our lives

Though I think most of the difference in life expectancy is due to reasons other than the healthcare system.

@@seneca983 I read many people die by car accidents and guns, in America.

Yes, and that should be the expected results. You only need to pay for healthcare of you are unhealthy. Those who are unhealthy are more likely to experience a bad result. If you are healthy you won't be spending money on healthcare cause you have no reason to spend money on healthcare. If you are healthy you are less likely to experience a bad result. The price gap had nothing to do with the system or the quality, and everything to do with how unhealthy most people in the US live.

@@evancombs5159 how about cancer or genetic diseases or accidents? Are these your fault? A society protects people with these problems. In any case American prices are too high because the government can’t control the greed of big companies, hospitals, specialists, dentists etc and this is sad. Also because college is 10 times more expensive than other parts of the world, these people need to pay their student loans so they charge so much. One problem causes another. Greed.

Oh no. It will be the same since latinos are expected to the majority in 10 to 20 years. Whites already down to 60% (probably lower if you count the illegals).

@@RS-ls7mm that doesn't change the fact that they would still be living under American living standards, eating American food, and living in the American healthcare system. Seriously, there are Americans who cross into Mexico solely because the healthcare system there is better.

Child poverty is already higher than in ROMANIA, the Georgia of europe...

@@RS-ls7mm what? By 2050 Latinos are expected to make up about ~25% of the US population, not the majority?

@@RS-ls7mm It is not about race it is about how the USA are working as a society.

Thank God sweet home Alabama isn’t on the craziest end of this spectrum. About time there were something I could mock other states for, the only thing we’re actually good at is college football ( the 🏈 kind)

... and when they turn 21 they suddenly have access to alcohol and feel like they are experienced drivers. What could go wrong?

Out in the country there isnt any other way to get around. Notice how most of those states were the massive ones with less population. Your ranch might as well be an island without a car.

@Billy Parker I think it’s a learner’s permit kinda thing. I personally don’t live in any of those states but I haven’t heard of anything like that so it’s probably a little disingenuous

@@papaicebreakerii8180 it is a learners permit. But, 14 is way too young to let people start driving. Most American teenagers are incredibly immature compared to their European counterparts.

I do agree with you, but I'd also add that we have a "junk values" problem. A poor dad who can't buy his child a thing gets stuck feeling bad, rather than just switching to playing with the kid in the park. There are a lot of inexpensive experiences out there, but we haven't invested in parks or the mentality that a good life is anything other than owning the right crap.

@@michellekaiser5907 But a poor dad who is working 3 jobs just to barely get by doesn't have time to go play in the park.

You'll also note that this is the same period where US 'health spending per capita vs. life expectancy', left the high side of the trend band and started out to low life expectancy/ high per capita health spending, while every other country listed continued to slightly higher healthcare spending/ high life expectancy. I know correlation isn't causality, but still...

But Trump put a stop to all that? Right?

@@michaelthomas5433 This goes well beyond Trump, and not fair to blame one single man for a failed healthcare system that he inherited, not to speak of inequality, which the oligarchs in the US don't want to fix and have destroyed avenue's for the poor to safeguard their interest such as workers unions. Sadly European countries are following US in this regard.

That's the point.

I don't think it's misleading at all. When you use spending as a metric it's understood that you include both the amount of services as the price of those services. The fact that healthcare is more expensive in the US is not glossed over.

No one is misled. It's blindingly obvious.

One other factor most people miss is that the US is practically the only country funding new medical research (from these profits). The so call "free" healthcare systems in other countries depend on the US for new treatments. If you take away the profits then new medical research will be drastically reduced (government research funding in only 22%). Something to consider while trying to find a better system.

@@RS-ls7mm Thats a cold war talking point that has not been true for decades. The US stands for 40% of the world's GDP, and is responsible for about 45% of NMEs. Which dont get me wrong, that's almost half of the world's medical research output, but seems like the other economies are equally productive proportional to their resources.

@Han Boetes Might be something psychological that causes people to prefer crazy high healthcare costs over paying higher taxes.

@@WanderTheNomad Everybody has to pay taxes (unless she can afford a tax-evasion expert), but only sick people have to pay for their healthcare. And I'm not sick today, right? :-P

@@doktorcool3740 So basically, some people prefer being reactive instead of proactive.

@@WanderTheNomad Indeed. I guess these are the same people who wouldn't have car insurance if it wasn't mandatory "because I'm such a good driver and will never cause an accident". Surprising that "sending thoughts and prayers" doesn't really help when you're ill.

@@WanderTheNomad wanting more healthcare insurance is not necessarily proactive, it it also reactive because it suggest something that the cause of our problem is that people can't afford treatment or cures (this is merely a symptom), when in reality the problem is that people have forgotten what prevention is. Why? Because of our consumerist, individualist society. We do what we want, cause we only live once, except that the consequences of this attitude results in unhealthy habits, which forces people to become dependent on therapy and pills to feel better. This of course quite benefits the healthcare, entertainment, and pharmaceutical industries, to the detriment of us.

Do not worry. EU is better, but not by much. Still a lot of fat people here.

True. I guess he did indirectly touch on some of those conditions that can be caused by obesity by talking about health care. But I guess that obesity is not that interesting, we all know about it. The interesting part is trying to explain why white Americans are doing so much worse when it comes to life expectancy, considering how latinos and other minorities are more likely to be obese. It's goes counter to what could be expected. And that is directly tied up to the political situation in the US right now. There's a lot of frustrated white Americans, which brought a lot of new voters to vote for Trump five years ago. A huge number of white, uneducated people who didn't usually vote went out and secured Trump the rust belt. So then it's very interesting to see these numbers, because it puts perspective to the current situation. It's too bad these people don't realise that the problems they face are not Mexicans nor globalism, but simply things like the lack of health care, low minimum wage and the growing opiod epidemic. So they kinda chose the wrong grumpy old New York white guy to solve their problems. One politician actually wanted to improve their lives, but these idiots chose the guy who just riled up their hatred.

Isn't Britain like superfat?

@@ColonizerChan People are less likely to do something, the more difficult it is. Of course some people will commit suicide anyway, even if they cannot access a firearm, but many will not. Many people have suicidal thoughts, and even take suicidal actions, and then change their minds. If you are preparing to commit suicide, you have a lot more opportunity to rethink that decision and choose something else, if more work is required to create the conditions in which you plan to do it. Compare that to simply pulling a firearm out of a drawer and pulling the trigger, it takes five seconds. But if you force people to actually plan out the act of taking their own lives, shockingly many of them will come to a different decision during the time it takes to do that. Or maybe they will reach out to a loved one for help. Or have someone reach out to them. I considered suicide at some points of my life, and one of the biggest deterrents for me was the possibility of failure; I did *NOT* want to deal with the social consequences of attempting suicide and failing, and I did not want to cause pain to the members of my family who love me. But if I'd had a gun in the drawer of my apartment, I could have taken it out at any time and blown off the top of my head, without taking the time to think that decision through and ultimately decide against it, because it only takes 2 seconds to shoot yourself. Of course reducing the proliferation of firearms won't prevent suicide completely. But it will give people in that mental state more TIME, and sometimes that time can make all the difference in changing their minds.

@@ColonizerChan Alot of suicides come from a big impulse to do it. And picking up a gun isn’t that too difficult as an impulse.

Exactly. Also I think it was almost 90% of people who attempt suicide and survive don't try again?

@Nika (UNVACCINATED) 1776 I get not wanting to ban guns but I want people to make an informed decision before buying one and endangering themselves and anyone there living with. Also a wait period could help prevent impulsive buying and using of firearms. Also vaccines are important to protect yours and everyone around yous life. Ignoring important public health guidelines is murder.

@Nika (UNVACCINATED) 1776 right but the death rate is 10% and the vaccine is free

Such an underrated comment.

Yeah but peruvians don't have billionaires spending money in their private market. The cost is inflated simply because it has a large group that can afford to spend and will do.

Funny I was thinking the same thing regarding other nations like South Africa.

I have a feeling the primary care doctors in Peru aren't making $214k a year.

Meanwhile, residents of Fukushima seem to be doing just fine (because they at least took the threat seriously when it happened)

They always compare themselves with their next door neighbors,Cuba, mexico it Venezuela and believe they live in paradise as a result

Hey maybe that's good let them live in a bubble and leave other countries alone 😄

let's be honest it's not terrible there, it's just not like countries that focus on welfare, they're very focused on freedom (especially market freedom idealogically) and that often means shunning policies that could help your people because they would restrict freedom.

@@matthewbentley1236 Oh sure, for many it’s a paradise. But the millions living in slum housing on subsistence wages and no healthcare don’t get to live the American dream. It’s just always shocking when you’re thinking of the wealthiest country in the world.

Speaking from experience, I'd rather live in US northeast than Stuttgart, Berlin, or Amsterdam. But yeah we're in a terrible mess.

a massive factor is the unhealthy livestyle of americans...

However, we make medicines the world need for example the US made 3 covid vaccines and the EU only made two Phazer which is also a US one and a UK one... I'm alive today because of Remicade a miracle drug that I got into the testing of and if I was British I would have died because they still don't have it.

@@GreenBlueWalkthrough UK had lower death rates!

@@shubhamsagarsingh9451 Florida had lower than most of Europe your point?

@@GreenBlueWalkthrough the point is you are coping so hard.

Same. My best friend from high school became a doctor my other best friend recovered as an addict. 1/2 the kids turned out amazing. The other half lets see 42 kids in my class 3 have died of overdoses and one had a heart attack we are 33.

@@laraantipova389 I’m so sorry hear that. I’m working on connecting with them and getting them help, but our society has filed them.

when i got a sick Doctor prescribed an antibiotic, plus an OxyContin the pain was gone and i did not care to pay for the oxycontin so i told the clerk no on the oxycotin and i put a big x on it i just want antibiotic to get better. when i went back to pick up and pay the clerk was and here is you oxycontin i said " dude i don't want it " he was then like well let me get you the pharmacist to talk you, i told the pharmacist the same thing and she was like well you have insurance so it only 5 so it would not be costing you that much for real i know dealer that push less hard than this

@@hugoCastellnaos Those doctors probably get paid by the Sacklers for every prescription that gets filled.

OxyContin is a derivative of Heroin, your America doctor is nothing more than a drug pusher

Every life in every country has a price tag, even in ones with universal healthcare. In government controlled healthcare systems the government decides if a procedure is financially worth for people to do and if it isn't, they won't allow that person to be treated. If you look up the case of baby Alfie Evans in the UK, the UK courts and doctors decided to unplug the baby's life support despite his parents wishes to take him out of the country for treatment elsewhere. Also, in the UK if a drug is very effective but to expensive, they'll use a cheaper less effective alternative and won't allow the more expensive drug to be distributed in the UK. In the US, if you can afford to do a treatment, you can do that treatment.

Are you insane? A free market would lead to competitive prices, currently with all the regulations are crap companies can't compete. The Martin Shkreli thing was because insurers would cover the fees and he literally said if you truly can't afford it he would give it to you or something like that.

Actually, it'd more than likely be cheaper if hospitals were allowed to compete.

@@MaelPlaguecrow6942 Until a monopoly is created...

It's absurd we even put a price on people's lives...

@@huldanoren951 Medicine costs money??? It's insane that food isn't free right because you need it?

The last bit's not true and in fact, it's easier than ever because of the internet and service economy... also that's only true overseas... name one modern rich American who didn't come from a poor or middle-class background. Ever one of the tech guys did the top 10 richest people in the world were some of the poorest at some point. My Grandma grew up under the thumb of the Rockefellers.... they were poor at one point and have no power now.

Yeah but that's more of a symptom of the other things (particularly income inequality and a poor healthcare system). The first because a lot of times, garbage food is simply cheap and easy. If you're working 80 hours a week at minimum wage, especially in a larger city where costs of living tend to be very high, its very easy to just grab a $0.25 cent pack of ramen and a bag of frozen peas and call that your meal for the day. Costs less than a dollar and takes 5 minutes to prepare. The second because in addition to all of the known issues with the cost of healthcare, the US system is also not very good at health education either. There's no real central voice to provide consistent, well-researched standards. The FDA kind of tries to fill that role but its not really their purview so we end up with a bunch of competing ideas from random companies, most of whom have a hidden agenda they're pushing, and in the end Americans just get confused about what they should be eating and stop even bothering to try. Add onto that the fact that hospitals are incentivized to let you get sick (that's how they make money after all) and you aren't likely to get the greatest nutrition advice there either. Now of course you don't talk to "the hospital", you talk to an individual doctor, so your mileage may vary depending on who your doctor is but the hospital as an organization is not really going to go to a whole lot of effort to promote a healthy lifestyle (and even the ones that do try a little bit end up with that confusion problem again - too many competing ideas). Unfortunately even the most ambitious healthcare plans in the US wouldn't fix much of that. They're all looking to setup a system where the hospitals are still for-profit and therefore are incentivized to keep you coming back. "Single-payer" would certainly improve a lot of things but even if that somehow happened, the US healthcare system still has a lot of areas where dollars are worth more than lives.

Definitely agree. I think a lot of the blame is also attributed to the fast paced business culture that is prominent in most of America. So many people just grab fast food for about two out of three meals 4-5 days a week. But even if obesity’s a symptom more so than the problem, which I think it’s some of both, I’m sure there’s a correlation and I would have liked to see how they fit it in. Our higher healthcare costs make sense when most of us are fat.

@@Isaac_L.. Well it fits in one of two ways: - We try to address the symptom (obesity) directly. That's what we've been attempting for a few decades now with little success. - We try to address the underlying problems of inequality and poor healthcare. This is what most developed countries do, but the US has struggled to make any inroads because they prioritize the wealth of the richest people over the health of their poorest. And that's the real fundamental problem: The fact that the US treats anyone other than the most wealthy as disposable. Make another buck no matter who or what gets sacrificed to do so. Now that system worked pretty well for a long time. It definitely causes GDP growth, and as long as GDP growth is (somewhat) spread around the citizens, everyone's quality of life improves implicitly. However starting with Reagan and the whole supply-side (aka trickle-down) economics that the rich have imposed on the rest of the country, that's no longer really the case. GDP is still growing exponentially but a larger and larger portion of the benefits are being concentrated in the pockets of a smaller and smaller number of ultra-wealthy. GDP growth is not longer benefitting _all_ the citizens, and since inflation continues to rise every year, it means the real wealth of the vast majority of citizens has dropped precipitously since the 1980s. And to that extent, the modern failure of the US healthcare system is also based in large part on that economic inequality. 50 years ago if you needed a doctor you could generally afford to go. You were still financially ruined if you got cancer or some other long-term issue and didn't have sufficient insurance, but for normal day-to-day upkeep it wasn't _that_ big of a problem for all but the poorest of the poor. Now even a simple broken leg is likely to send you into debt for a decade unless you've got a fairly good job that provides fairly good benefits. The idea of going to a doctor without some form of insurance is laughable, and even with insurance its often a financial trap between copays and drug prices an whatnot. But its not the insurance system hasn't gotten significantly worse - they've always been pretty shitty. What's gotten worse is the ability for average Americans to cover the out-of-pocket differences.

Yes

Absolutely. Every gun law is an infringement. We need more guns.

We need guns to arm the Proletariat!

Hell yeah clear answer, we now need rpg's and explosives. Guns aren't enough!!! Murica!!/j

Of all the things this dude is going off on the guns

All of your points are true in every developed country with the exception of healthcare system, so your points are invalid in a comparison between those countries.

@@fenrirr22 Yes, and if you actually read my comment I don't compare anything and even go so far as to specify that the healthcare system only applies to America

Sedentary lifestyle? All countries have this. Nothing unique to US Food quality? The difference in quality is not much Pollution? US is far less polluted than many countries Stress? All countries have this Healthcare? Not a major factor You are wrong an every account The big factor is crime and opioid crisis get your head out of youras

Many other indusrialized countries have sedentary life styles too, but still have better health outcomes.

Yikes. Imagine paying for someone else's bills.

@@goldstein10493 Taxes should go towards citizens health. If we would cut military spending down to just equal China and Russia combined, and cut politicians pay down to a reasonable rate. Then we would have tons left over for social programs.

@@invaderjoshua6280 Poverty and crime rates are caused by social programs. When you pay people to not work, then they wouldn't have any reason to actually work. Socialism didn't work. Learn the lesson from the Soviets. Also, taxation is theft.

@@goldstein10493 Yet all countries do impose taxes on their populace to some extent. Even more so, the countries with high taxation and that money being put towards universal healthcare and social safety nets do very well on all fronts... part from military I guess. Each year I see what I pay in taxes, and it makes my eyes water. However, I am happily paying it. I know how much good it does.

@@goldstein10493 where do you live? Have you seen how good Northern European countries do? (Scandinavian). They tax a lot and have a big social system to avoid poverty. Where as the USA has almost nothing of that and has the biggest wealth and income gap in the Western world. Tax isn't theft. It's what you pay to the government for the service they provide. If you buy a car, the money you pay isn't theft by the car dealer. You pay the government for infrastructure, in Europe for health care, social insurance, diplomacy, regulations.

I was surprised to see college education make such a big difference since sometimes college education doesn't really improve a person's job prospects much while it can start people off with a massive debt.

@@rodh1404 sometimes, yes. Though I wonder if it's a majority or a minority of college graduates who have trouble with that.

@@rodh1404 a large part of the it is probably not the degree itself, but instead the already present economic environment that gave you the “privilege” to go to university. That is to say, Someone who is already well of economically in the US, will be more likely to go to university and therefore the statistic inherently includes that initial economic prosperity.

@@mattiasalmqvist9732 A person in the US is less likely to move up from a lower income family to a higher group than most other wealthy countries.

@@johnclements6614 That's complete BS. Look at the last US census stats, the lower two income groups got smaller while the upper two income groups got larger. Its much harder to get rich in European countries because of their leftist policies (with a few exceptions).

I think the Bismarck model would fit the US much better.

Nationwide universal healthcare is basically impossible. (there's so much lobbying against it and rural states don't like federal intervention). Individual states could pass it on their own though, pushing each state to make their own version of universal healthcare would probably be more effective and would put more pressure on the Federal government to do something.

@@SameerHameedy Oh it's not impossible. It's just not possible under the current political system. Anything's possible when you take more a direct means.

@@SameerHameedy State-mandated universal healthcare is fine. That's pretty similar to Canada.

if you call a European obese they get mad and run after you. if you call a American obese they get mad and snipe you out of there XXL mobility scooter.

Hmm... Are the US Americans that much more obese than other developed nations? I'm pretty sure all developed nations is having a health crisis concerning obesity, so question is if it's making that much of a difference.. Although, of course, since other developed nations have universal healthcare, the governments have a vested interest in keeping their citizens healthy, so...

Very ironic that having plenty to eat has been the main goal since the beginning of time and now suddenly it has turned on us!

@@marymolloy562 True, but having too much to eat is better than having not enough to eat. The US just needs most people to have a healthier mindset if they want to solve obesity.

Sugar is actually subsidized by the US government for some reason. And companies replaced all the fat it used to flavor food with sugar and that is when obesisty started to sky rocket in the US.

No need to feel sad; most of the bad outcome is by CHOICE.

@@coquitlamfalcons3976 Not really; their elections are so rigged that "choice" is an illusion... just look at most of the US's electoral districts compared to ours. Elections Canada in spite of it's flaws is angelic compared to the partisan shitshow that is the USA

America does have the highest paid doctors in the world. There's a conversation to be had about how much doctors should be able to charge for their services, however American doctors are also the most specialized and trained. Millions come to the US for specialized surgeries and treatment because their own government can't or won't pay for it. There's a reason medical school is so expensive; universities know that they can charge as much as they want if each doctor ends up making $500k-$1M a year from their practice.

@@afluffypinecone3577 Sure but not having a healthcare insure that regulates/negotiates prices for the entire country makes it easy for medical companies to price gauge everyone.

@@nulian It's not up to the government to negotiate prices for everyone, and it's definitely not up to a private business to bow down to government demands on pricing

Idk if that's possible since the rich make the laws through lobbying

@@Cris-if8kf The rich wouldn't be able to do that if they weren't being willfully supported by half the population.

I think you're right. We have a similar problem in Canada where cities are built with cars in mind so you pretty much need a car to do basic things. So of course car accident are mon frequent if everybody drives a car everyday

with the car part in mind what was odd to me. (being Dutch) is how simple the driving education is. apparently it's not uncommon to earn your drives licence with in a week. Where I live it is more common to get your licence with in a period of 3 to 6 month when quick to 12 to 24 month. As you first need to learn how to operate the machine in all (weather) conditions. To then also learn how to use that machine in combination with other road uses. and to then combine the both and do the first part almost automatically. Plus getting that degree here and than also getting a car is very expensive. paying about $1,200.- just for a short driving lesson deal (3 month) is cheap. buying your self a road legal older car can get you a other $1000. if lucky. newer to new could be a $30,000.- basic model

@@sirBrouwer as someone who took the test at least where I live you take a class in high school->take a legal memorization test->practice a minimum amount of time with driver over 21(changes based on the state mine was 6 months or 3 months if over 17)-> and finally take the test which is over 3 days.

@@vavin6927 that seems reasonable.

Btw this video was really well put together 👍

Because while that inequality is there, there is less poverty and more prosperity, thus the people with lower income still in average have higher income than Americans with lower income.

You mean the country with free public housing and universal healthcare.

@@zesky6654 No you still can get broke in Singapore. Look up poly matter in “how Singapore solved healthcare”.

@@zesky6654 Singapore has neither. It has the most successful for profit private healthcare and privately owned housing.

Apples to oranges - 330M people in 9m km^2 to 5.5M people in 730km^2. Hawaii and some individual US cities have life expectancies that approach that of Singapore.

Actually the us records still births as deaths while many other nations do not.

Nah, we got high quality healthcare, just poor access to said healthcare because it's expensive af.

@@dennisfeng6626 That's the sad part, the US has the best hospitals in the world but it doesn't matter when they are only for the 1%

Well said, I hate that shithole nation.

This is true for say, the UK and France. But not in the Netherlands or Germany. Not all of Europe has universal healthcare. Many have healthcare systems similar to the US only better regulated.

40mph! Who drives that slow! Better speed up or that driver is going to get pulled over by the police for driving under the minimum speed limit (45mph about 70kmph on most highways). Of course we tend to drive quickly in a country where you can drive for four days in one direction entirely on roads with 4 - 16 lanes without ever crossing any international border.

No, not really. Food safety is a high priority in the food industry because the government's emphasis on it. That's why when there is even a small outbreak of salmonella in the US, grocery stores and resturants do an almost automatic recall of all the food contaminated. In-fact the most likely cause of food posioning in the US, is when people do it to themselves in the US, while mishandling their food at home. And if by food quality you mean junk food, then you're correct. Junk food is a billion dollar industry and its made to be highly addictive.

@@dallascopp4798 No i mean any and all processed, non organic food. The moment you add any kind of preservative other than then the traditional ones, that food is contaminated, it may keep you alive but its nutritional value is poor, but it will not keep you healthy overtime. And that goes for 99% for anything you buy in a store.

This video compared the US to other developed countries. Obesity here isn't as bad as in the US, but we aren't slim either.

Who's "we"? I suspect most people outside the USA have less interest than ever in copying American ways ...

It gives you the freedom to do what you want for good or for bad my great grandparents lived into there 90s why because they made good life choices no drinking no smoking and they ate good food its all about how you live your life

@@bingozonk3143 Not necessarily because of the inequality and the corporations in the US. Some people don’t live in areas with healthy food called food deserts. And since health insurance is privatized and so expensive people who get sick don’t get the right treatment.

@@tommyl7203 You cant make public health care in the us its to unhealthy and that would be massive government overreach things that most people dont like The food desert issue is in the American south that issue would need to be solved first but you cant force these things without massive government overreach and small stupid laws the uk outlawed putting cartoon mascots on candy bars that is not the American way Its ok if its your way but it is not our way

@@bingozonk3143 Your beliefs on healthcare are the epitome of why the US’s life expectancy will keep on falling. Notice how every other developed country has universal healthcare and their citizens’ life expectancies aren’t going down?

While I agree we need to prioritize health more, those other three issues are also important

You must mean freedumb.

I don't think our country is prioritizing individual freedom when the government gets into people's bedrooms to tell them they can't get an abortion or California encourages school kids to be gay.

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And lower healthcare costs and lower higher education costs (med/nursing school debts drive up costs of care) Universal healthcare isn't going to work on it's own to solve our problems. It would fail without other reforms because of the cost.

@@ems7623 You are completely correct!

No. We need to deregulate the healthcare industry. Regulations are the one that is killing the healthcare industry

No we dont. That would lower quality. Kill more.

If you are incarcerated it will be harder to get a job and care for your family.

@@johnclements6614 exactly! So, does the increased challenge of life in general impact suicide rates? And does that increase in incarceration rates also increase the discrepancy between classes? Because it is VERY rare for the wealthy to be incarcerated at all and certainly not for any length of time.

Wait you're telling me trickle down economics don't make everyone richer? Who could have possibly forseen this?

@@loenk2651 "The system where the rich piss on you but we tell you it's raining" - Thejuicemedia

Not entirely true the poverty rate has not dropped below what it was during the 1960’s poverty rate overall has remained somewhat constant

@@hs5312 While the poverty rate has stayed relatively constant the population of impoverished have grown with the population. Meaning the number of people in poverty has steadily grown over time.(it’s still slightly lower then in 1960)

@@loenk2651 Trickle down economics does make everyone richer. After the Trump's tax cuts was passed. There was a $4k increase in household median income from 2018-2019. Heck, it even increase worker's income

No, for the US is that we're stupid and lazy and don't care about anyone but ourselves.

bruh the sources are literally in your face just look where it says "source:" down

How can you not see the source (and nine others giving thumbs up). How?