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In the midst of the Obamacare/Trumpcare debate, there's news from the Annals of Internal Medicine that Canadian Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients live more than 10 years longer on average than patients with the same disease in the U.S. — universal healthcare plays a large role in that survival rate.
According to the CTV News story one factor is that Canadians with cystic fibrosis were told ten years earlier than Americans to adopt a high-calorie, high-fat diet, to take pancreatic enzyme supplements and vitamin supplements at every meal, and that Canadians were more likely to get lung transplants.
But one of the key differences between the two countries is that Canadians have universal, publicly funded health care while Americans do not.
In the study group, Canadian CF patients as a whole had a 77 per cent lower risk for death than U.S. patients with no health insurance or who health insurance status was unknown. They also had a 44 per cent lower death risk than Americans receiving continuous Medicaid or Medicare, and a 36 per cent lower risk than those receiving intermittent Medicaid or Medicare coverage.
Wikipedia summarizes:
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that affects mostly the lungs, but also the pancreas, liver, kidneys, and intestine. Long-term issues include difficulty breathing and coughing up mucus as a result of frequent lung infections. Other signs and symptoms may include sinus infections, poor growth, fatty stool, clubbing of the fingers and toes, and infertility in males. Different people may have different degrees of symptoms.
(Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Thursday March 16 2017, @07:05AM (5 children)
"Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die."
The new US health plan: saving you from decades of suffering, wether you wanted "saving" or not.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday March 16 2017, @07:44AM (4 children)
> The new US health plan: saving you from decades of suffering, wether you wanted "saving" or not.
And yet... they want to ban abortion.
Of course it has nothing to do with "saving", they need masses chasing the american dream (whatever this may be) to squeeze their life in an efficient and productive manner. Corporatist feudalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday March 16 2017, @09:09AM (3 children)
There's some pro-lifer w/ a sign on his property on a route I drive home sometimes -- a baby swaddled in an American flag and some slogan that includes "60 million abortions". I live in WA state with about 12M other people and it seems plenty crowded enough without another 60M stretched across every inch of land displacing all other life. Thank god for abortions!! MORE PLEASE.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @03:57PM (1 child)
Hope you don't have any kids. Ever.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Friday March 17 2017, @02:12PM
I'm intentionally child free. I care about the world. You and your kids should thank me, the Thunderdome will be just that much less worse -- you are welcome.
(Score: 2) by dry on Friday March 17 2017, @03:17AM
60 million preventable pregnancies is a better way to look at it.