Americans spend more time living with diseases than rest of world, study shows

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/11/americans-living-with-diseases-health-study

Summary

Americans spend more time living with disease than people in other countries. A new study by the American Medical Association reveals that Americans live with illness for an average of 12.4 years, up from 10.9 years in 2000.

Women in the US experience a larger healthspan-lifespan gap than men.

Mental, substance-use, and musculoskeletal disorders are major contributors to this gap.

Globally, the healthspan-lifespan gap has also widened over the past two decades.

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1y (3 replies)

It's almost like capitalist healthcare is a bad idea...

Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It’s almost like capitalism was a bad idea

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Nahhhhhh....

^(Well...)^

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

“healthcare”

Darkly@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Always hate this, "obvious solution to an American problem is obvious" but the answer can't be that simple! repeated message from every news outlet

triptrapper@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

"Nuance Trolling": The insistence that some major beneficial development like single-payer healthcare, ending wars and bombing campaigns, or the mitigation, even cessation, of climate change is impossible because the situation is too nuanced, the plan too lacking in detail, the goal too hard to achieve, the public isn’t behind it or some other bad faith “concern” that makes bold action an impossibility.

-Citations Needed podcast Ep. 201

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

😘👌

ramsorge@discuss.online · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Here is a thought, make all health insurance non-profit while transitioning to universal

NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

But think of the CEOs! You can't expect them to just float away with their golden parachutes?

ramsorge@discuss.online · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I’m fine with one last golden parachute. Whatever makes it stop

NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Counter offer. They all disappear themselves to some private island now and have no contact with the outside world outside of stuff needed to survive comfortably; in exchange we don't literally burn them alive.

ramsorge@discuss.online · 2 pts · 1y

I’m willing to accept this offer. They can take air mattresses, I’m not a monster.

circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 1y

Oh yeah, USA #1!!!

But honestly, of course they do. Most cannot afford the exorbitant rates for care -- largely a side effect of the insurance system -- and cures are not profitable for the capitalists.

starchylemming@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

"Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”

some fat british guy

ZeroCool@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y

It's been abundantly clear for as long as I can remember, that we're number 1 in all the wrong things. American exceptionalism, eh?

pyre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

someone should do something about that