That’s because we’re a regressing country
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it's SO weird to be someone who grew up in America and has now spent about 25 years back home. i cannot understate the powerful effect of the mindset of "being an American".
I’m unfortunately still here and even I haven’t a fucking clue
here's the thing. one might say something like, "well get one and move!" just like they'd say to a tesla owner, "if you don't want your car defaced, then just get rid of it!"
i'm not defending tesla. nothing burns brighter than an T. as in "time to leave".
but you can't just up and swap countries or cars every four years, right? there's a word for that, but half the country refuses to hear it.. it's unsustainable.
none of what i just wrote is directed at you personally. i personally have a spare bedroom in Canada that you're welcome to inhabit (barring obvious vets).
One of the biggest troubles of being a US citizen is the conservatives will happily tell you "If you don't like it, leave!"
Not being a conservative, I know my associates degree self is not gonna be terribly welcome to vast majority of the countries.
It's not hard at all. -If one has a PhD in the hard-sciences and at least $500,000.00 in savings prior to turning 30yo
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Are they falling in China, Russia, Susan, Israel? only shit holes are our peers.
Leave Susan out of this.
You're right. She's really cleaned up her shit.
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China yes, susan no. But susan is an outlier.
Sounds Sus.
Suddenly Susan
https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/
United states is ranked 48. And they claim to have th best healthcare in the world.
Obviously that's not true, they may have one of the best for the very rich. But on average it's VERY bad.
Food standards are also bad, so again it's only if you are doing well that you can afford healthy food.
The countries surrounding USA on this list have about a third the wealth per capita!!!
Man, that table is wild. South Africa has a lower life expectancy than Afghanistan and in Russia women live 12 years longer than men? Bonkers.
Yes I didn't even notice the South Africa thing. I would have thought they did better?
Way above them are Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia, all countries that has had very serious problems and I though were way poorer?
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I'm guessing women don't get drafted for special operations in Ukraine
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Ben Shapiro said years ago that the US Healthcare system is the best... but it's only flaws were regulation. I think Ben Shapiro needs to have his ass examined and then given a diagnosis of colon cancer and told to fuck off.
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Best health care = most profitable health care.
We can add time to your life by charging so much money and limiting access via networks that you avoid care until it’s too late. Or you just choose the cheapest insurance that’s actually useless if you need it. Now that you’ve collapsed from a heart attack and taken a $5k ride in a fancy ambulance to the out-of-network ER that has reduced coverage for non-preapproved procedures we can extend your life via stents and bypasses or other serious measures. You have severely reduced life expectancy, maybe lost your job if the attack disabled you, maybe lose your home, but look how great our medical care was in making sure you didn’t use it until you desperately needed it!
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'Shithole country'
The numbers will increase until Jan 2029, especially for people near 6th floor windows.
At first glance I read: "afforable deaths"...
lol, no, americans don't get those.
I have yacht payments and a mortgage on a third mansion to make. Don't make me pay for you to stay alive.
Oh no we don't have those in America. Dying is expensive, but don't worry the government won't get a penny of that as an estate tax
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Definitely a symptom of the 1% hoarding all the wealth... there's a version of that "trickle down" theory Republicans seem to love so much. If you can barely afford groceries or housing - how do you expect people to be able to afford basic medical care and other things that keep people from teetering off the edge?
Workers are paid like shit and burnt out - so lots of people do bare minimum at work to get by. I don't blame them. A society attempting to function like that ends up with holes all over the place that make everything worse and decimate any kind of safety nets for lower and middle class families. Corporations and government put up all their red tape bullshit that seems to be done solely to exhaust people and make them want to give up.
And one of the most stupid things of them all - you now have dumb fuck Republicans openly shouting from the hilltops that vaccines are evil and to not trust doctors....
Have more babies though.
Your owners need your kids to be exploited into an early, miserable grave to run up their nepo kid's ego scores. The doting ones at least, the owners toss kids that don't become little nepo clones of themselves as bad investments.
Luxury climate bunkers are boring, are you really going to deprive a future billionaire child that matters the joy of watching line go up powered by your worthless peasant offspring's life force, you monster?
Maybe stop being so selfish and think about what you can do to further enrich your betters. Priorities, my fellow batteries, priorities!
The batteries analogy in the Matrix was bad and originally it was that the machines used humans as bio-computers, which makes a lot more sense.
I'm aware, that's my Fandom, I know the lore intimately.
Being a "battery" is in the vernacular though, and most understand what a capital battery means.
I even see the Architects nod to the supposed answer requiring a "lesser mind" albeit a more human curious mind in the oracle was a nod to that original idea the studio mandated the Wachowskis change, from bioprocessors to batteries. Would have worked on so many levels, even with the machines falling victim to repetition loop breakdowns without processing from imperfect minds, but that was on the Studio, the writers were vocal they didn't like the change, which makes it easy for me to look beyond.
"When the researchers examined the causes of avoidable deaths (including road traffic accidents, illnesses preventable by vaccines, treatable conditions like sepsis or appendicitis, and conditions preventable by early detection and treatment like cervical cancer, ischemic heart disease and tuberculosis), they found that deaths from a variety of different causes are rising in every U.S."
“There’s been a lot of discussion about preventable deaths in the U.S. such as drug-related deaths or suicides, which do account for a big proportion of this trend,” Papanicolas said. “However, we found that deaths from nearly all major categories are increasing.”
People just aren't going to the doctor cause it costs too much...thanks, free market!
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I'm curious, how much is a typical doctor's visit in the U.S. without insurance of any kind? Just a straight out of pocket sort of expense. $50, $100, $250, $500, $1000? I assume that it scales based on more complicated procedures or longer visits, but what about the basics, like going in for what you think is a bad cold or the flue, maybe a rash or something along those lines?
A bad cold or flu you probably wouldn't go to a doctor, just an urgent care clinic for some antibiotics or whatever. Probably run $100-$150 + cost of meds (hopefully generic).
If urgent care can't help, an out of pocket visit to primary care provider will be closer to $300 just to step in the door. Hospitals will put you on a payment plan if you can't front it.
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Well yeah, that's to be expected when healthcare has a paywall.
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