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Maybe it’s confirmation bias but everything on this story is screaming "the systemic cause is probably the lack of a social security system" A mini thread ⤵️ washingtonpost.com/health/theres-something-terribly-wrong-americans-are-dying-young-at-alarming-rates/2019/11/25/d88b28ec-0d6a-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.htmlPermalink
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My guess: the gap is not due to education itself but to revenue and, more importantly, to access to a health insurance A SSS is redistributive, it transfers ressources from the rich to the poor. And for a variety of reasons, poor people are sicker than rich peoplePermalink
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So without a good SSS, you basically forbid poor people to get treated when they are sick The perfect incarnation of that is obesity. I’m pretty sure if we look at the obesity rate conditional to revenues, the poorest would be the more obesePermalink
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France also has a problem of obesity, especially among poor people. But because we also have a pretty good SSS, a lot is done to fight it It continues to increase but the increase has slowed down since 10/15 years fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ob%C3%A9sit%C3%A9_en_France?wprov=sfti1Permalink
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The "other wealthy nations" mentioned here *do have* a SSS, and it’s probably why their citizens don’t die at a young age And as also emphasized by the first sentence highlighted, not only those nations enjoy a better health, it also cost them so much less money
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