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2011-05-12 Economy

Article comparing health care between UK & US sure to provoke controversy

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Most Americans have better health than most Britons. However, black Americans have significantly worse health than white Americans. Black male health and infant mortality is particularly bad.

Black Americans have an average life expectancy of 73.3 years, five years shorter than white Americans.

Black American males have a life expectancy of 69.8 years, slightly longer than the averages for Iran and Syria and slightly shorter than in Nicaragua and Morocco.

A relatively high percentage of babies born in the U.S. die before their first birthday, compared with other industrialized nations.

The U.S. rate was 6.8 deaths for every 1,000 live births. It was 13.7 for Black Americans, the same as Saudi Arabia.

Posted by phil_b 2011-05-12 02:01|| 2011-05-12 02:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Trust me. The NHS is SHIT with a capital S H I and T.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-05-12 05:58|| 2011-05-12 05:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Southern states? Blacks still not equal?

Is personal responsibility in there somewhere?

Or was the EEOC and Medicare supposed to eliminate the need for personal responsibility?

But Obamacare will certainly fix all that - my health care with somebody else's money. Controlled by bureaucrats who really don't care.

Posted by Bobby 2011-05-12 07:04|| 2011-05-12 07:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Is personal responsibility in there somewhere?

The largest factors for the life expectancy difference: High blood pressure/heart disease, smoking, murder and AIDS.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-12 08:24|| 2011-05-12 08:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't forget diabetes

Posted by Beavis 2011-05-12 08:31|| 2011-05-12 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, another lifestyle factor, but diabetes usually does not kill.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-12 08:38|| 2011-05-12 08:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Some more background on unexplained differences in health care outcomes in different regions:

The "Stroke Belt" & "Diabetes Belt" in the southeastern US

The French paradox

Health indicators in the southeastern US deviate so much from the rest of the US that, when this portion of the US is excluded from national statistics, the remainder of the country suddenly looks a great deal 'healthier.'

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-12 11:42|| 2011-05-12 11:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Obamacare will cost the US around $1 trillion a year. A Trillion. We only have a $14 Trillion economy at the best of times, and this stupid assed government already scrapes $3 Trillion off the top to employ 22 million idiots. Every dollar in that government is a dollar not on the street.

Posted by newc 2011-05-12 13:45|| 2011-05-12 13:45|| Front Page Top

#9 The data show that Americans just party harder than the Brits: 80% of all health care costs are related to unhealthy behavior.

Mortality rates are a function of behavior -- not health care spend.

Posted by regular joe 2011-05-12 15:05|| 2011-05-12 15:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Does not matter, A government that does something right is very, very rare indeed.

Posted by newc 2011-05-12 15:42|| concisemagazine.com 2011-05-12 15:42|| Front Page Top

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