1320
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 25 points 2 months ago

Oh we have really good care, if you can pay for it.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

And none of us can afford the really good care, we go broke trying to afford the over worked, beaten down healthcare staff doing the best they can with what little they have.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Remember during the pandemic they were literally wearing trash bags to take care of people?

[-] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"For [the 6 measured conditions], the health outcomes of White US citizens living in the 1% and 5% richest counties are better than those of average US citizens but are not consistently better than those of average residents in many other developed countries, suggesting that in the US, even if everyone achieved the health outcomes of White US citizens living in the 1% and 5% richest counties, health indicators would still lag behind those in many other countries."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2774561

Overall the US spends way more per capita on its healthcare than any other country (both in absolute terms and as a percent of GDP), and yet has the worst healthcare outcomes of any developed nation.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2021/aug/mirror-mirror-2021-reflecting-poorly

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022

https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low

this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
1320 points (98.3% liked)

People Twitter

4812 readers
212 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

  1. Mark NSFW content.
  2. No doxxing people.
  3. Must be a tweet or similar
  4. No bullying.
  5. Be excellent to each other.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS