"Why are cancer rates so much lower in countries with minimal diagnostic resources where the average lifespan is several decades less than the USA" is one of those rare questions that answers itself.
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Time to setup independent groups outside of the govt control. If enough people demand it, someone will furnish it. Yes you'll have to pay 😔but still cheaper than cancer.
jun 10, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Seriously though, our mortality rate is creeping and there are real causes. You can't absolutely say its just diagnostics the way our lifespan is falling off.
jun 10, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Cheaper that sick and older people die. Don't need to pay out benefits. Thats the thinking.
jun 10, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Average life expectancy has been increasing year-over-year, though? It's even higher than it was pre-covid.
jun 10, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
It was falling even pre Covid. That's the dirty secret. American medical care is in the toilet. Its nothing but a profit scam at this point because hospital systems have systemically ruined care for profit. That's the truth. I was warned about it in med school.
jun 10, 2025, 1:47 pm • 3 0 • view
In the early 90s. Since then it's become a pervasive culture of failure. We've lost diagnostic skills we had in the 80s, and at this point I'm hopeful for AI medicine.
jun 10, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
It was falling among certain cohorts. Mostly due to drug overdose deaths. There is a point at which life expectancy will plateau, regardless of intervention, simply because ppl don't live forever. The number one killer of americans is heart disease and it has been for the last 60 + years.
jun 10, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
And those excess death from drug overdose are falling. Or, they were until the Trump admin pulled funding for naloxone.
jun 10, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
We've had excess OD deaths since the 80s, they just started counting them instead of labeling it cardiac arrest. You're welcome.
jun 10, 2025, 2:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe people not seeking medical help because they can't afford it might have something to do with it 🤔
jun 10, 2025, 1:09 pm • 8 0 • view
A HUGE part of it!!! Also being not heard when they do seek care, or not getting services bundled into one appointment so it's more affordable. Single issue appointments need to be Congressionally restricted. There's a lot wrong.
jun 10, 2025, 1:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Here's a hint. One of these countries doesn't have universal healthcare. Guess which.
jun 11, 2025, 11:05 am • 0 0 • view
That is also ONE of many factors, including overreliance on lab standards, lack of wet reading skills, lack of communication among specialists, people who need tests don't get them people who don't need them do. But, yeah oversimplify. why not
jun 11, 2025, 12:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Every single one of those factors applies to all the countries on the chart. Only one is markedly different. Just think of all the ways the US for-profit model feeds into burden of disease - later diagnosis, drug self-rationing, untreated disease and the rest.
jun 11, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not arguing with you, I'm simply stating that it's also more complex than that. If we had Unoversal Health Care tomorrow we'd still have a lot to fix. Insurance companies and Health Systems have ruined the practice of medicine.
jun 11, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, but much less. Every other developed country is doing significantly better. Which invites the question of why RFK has decided that the *best* thing to do is undermine vaccines, one of the things that provably improves population health. I say question, we do know: he's an antivax kook.
jun 11, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Not in Miller's pea brain it doesn't.
jun 10, 2025, 11:37 pm • 0 0 • view
We all have choices as to what we eat and drink…we certainly don’t need any of this regime’s monkeys telling us otherwise…This is the GED regime…
jun 10, 2025, 11:18 am • 39 0 • view
Not so much GED as "cheat your way through fancy prep school and college" regime. The quote from Wharton professor William Kelley, on Trump, never gets old: "The dumbest goddamn student I ever had." (Miller, in turn, went to Duke; he has zero science training and is not an attorney, either.)
jun 10, 2025, 1:50 pm • 3 0 • view
I was referring to his MAGA monkeys but your post has merit
jun 10, 2025, 1:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Thanks; yours, too! I am appalled that so many in this regime (I'm thinking Congress as well) just lie shamelessly about subjects, especially science, about which they know absolutely nothing.
jun 10, 2025, 1:57 pm • 1 0 • view
And while he rants about kids eating bad food they ended the program that made sure kids could get good food from the farmers growing it
jun 10, 2025, 12:04 pm • 158 7 • view
Exactly
jun 10, 2025, 1:51 pm • 4 0 • view