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According to a report by the Congressional Research Service (PDF hosted on Cloudflare; archived copy here),
Although life expectancy has generally been increasing over time in the United States, researchers have long documented that it is lower for individuals with lower socioeconomic status (SES) compared with individuals with higher SES. Recent studies provide evidence that this gap has widened in recent decades. For example, a 2015 study by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) found that for men born in 1930, individuals in the highest income quintile (top 20%) could expect to live 5.1 years longer at age 50 than men in the lowest income quintile. This gap has increased significantly over time. Among men born in 1960, those in the top income quintile could expect to live 12.7 years longer than men in the bottom income quintile. This NAS study finds similar patterns for women: the life expectancy gap between the bottom and top income quintiles of women expanded from 3.9 years for the 1930 birth cohort to 13.6 years for the 1960 birth cohort.
Apparently, all the advances in medical science and healthy living that occurred during this rolling 30-year interval were visited upon the rich a lot more than on the poor.
According to a different study (open; DOI 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.0918; archived copy here) in JAMA Internal Medicine,
[...] inequalities in life expectancy among counties are large and growing, and much of the variation in life expectancy can be explained by differences in socioeconomic and race/ethnicity factors, behavioral and metabolic risk factors, and health care factors.
In 2014, there was a spread of 20.1 years between the counties with the longest and shortest typical life spans based on life expectancy at birth.
—NPR
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 29 2017, @05:28AM (3 children)
Just when I think you can't possibly get worse you grab a shovel and start looking for China.
Socialized healthcare is better, the "long waits" that people complain so much about are actually non-emergency procedures bumped back so that the people who have urgent problems are taken care of first. Of course, that doesn't work in your worldview where you believe it is OK for people to be selfish pricks and use money to pretend they are royalty.
Immediately you promote selfishness as if the person is too stupid or had bad parenting? My my buzzy, I like this new world where we don't have to suspect anything, the vampires are now comfortable outing themselves!
Systemic racism and its effects are boring to you? I'm shocked, SHOCKED I say!
It would be a gender war, not a class war you dipshit. So the lesson here is that women should never be stay at home moms because it could totally screw them over. Social Security isn't an easy problem to solve, but you don't seem to be interested in even addressing societal problems.
You really want to attribute all of the USA's success to capitalism? What else should I expect, you're an idiot. Go to college, its not too late for you to stop being an idiot.
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 29 2017, @10:45AM (2 children)
Do please point me to a socialized healthcare system that's given the world any significant number of medical advances. Can't? That's because such is a fucking unicorn. It does not exist. Now our cut-throat bastardly capitalist system here in the U.S., yeah, we've increased the quality of healthcare so much it's fucking unbelievable in our relatively brief existence. Capitalism: 1, your bitch ass: 0.
I promote selfishness every day but your reading comprehension is lacking if that's what you were trying to gig me on there. I was promoting not pinning your self-worth relative to what others have. That is called being a well-adjusted adult instead of a "mommy, he got two more M&Ms than me" petulant child. What others have is irrelevant to your personal happiness unless you simply have a heart full of avarice.
No, I find them hilarious. Systemic racism/sexism/etc... = "I can't find any actual evidence of race/sex/blah-ism, so I'm going to claim it's built into the system." Go fuck yourself with that nonsense. This is America, bitch. You want wrongdoing dealt with, you fucking well prove it or shut your pie hole.
Gender is, by its very nature, a calssification. Learn to fucking English.
Tell you what, sweetcheeks, I'll start listing off significant capitalist nation contributions to the world and you start listing off significant socialist nation contributions to the world and we'll see who runs the site out of db space first. Pro-tip: it sure as fuck ain't gonna be you.
Get this straight in your mind, dumbfuck: Socialist nations produce nothing of worth because everyone who wants to produce things of worth fucking leaves for somewhere their contributions will earn them a better life.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 29 2017, @12:32PM (1 child)
You seem to miss what social healthcare means. Tip: it works just like social roads, social armies, I was going to say social schooling, but that's not working that well in the US from what I hear, other places that's working fine to though.
The U.S. wouldn't be treading in the social healthcare like its some hypothetical thing, most of Europe has social healthcare, also Canada, etc. have social healthcare, working very well. I mention the last one too because they get many Americans visiting only for medical procedures to expensive for them in the US. (But they can afford them in Canada)
And for medical advances, did you ever use the European invention of antibiotics?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 29 2017, @02:35PM
It works well in other nations because the US did the lion's share of the work creating modern medicine. Without our capitalist asses you'd still be getting leeches put on you, albeit at a reasonable price.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.