what are we to make of this? [egalitarian life expectancy]?

Question

japan, the world's most egalitarian society [thanks to gen macarthur], has the highest life expectancy, 82.2

the usa, the world's most unegalitarian society, has life expectancy of only 77.5, and 30th ranking [and falling],

DESPITE SPENDING AS MUCH ON HEALTH AS THE REST OF THE WORLD

[in 1970, when american society was much more equal, it ranked 12th in life expectancy]

i suggest that the high cost of health in the usa is because unlimited fortunes has pushed health providers to pump health prices astronomically

the figures mean that inequality is killing us off 5 years before our egalitarian time, with stress and violence

in the 1970s [at the end of the midcentury 'great compression' of incomes-range], when usa ranked 12th in life expectancy, the top 500 ceo's got 'only' 28x as much as the average - now it is 369x the average - costing every one of 300 million americans 5 years of life, on average - 15 billion years of life

what do we think of this?

Answer 1

You are completely wrong. First of all, life expectancy in the US is rising, not falling, not sure how you missed that. Second, it has been rising in recent decades as the economy has become "less egalitarian", to use your phrase, which alone destroys your argument. Third, there are many many things that factor into life expectancy -- demographics, genetics, diet, exercise habits, general life habits, and about one million other things. You can't pick your one favorite bugbear and say that's the reason life expectancy isn't higher than it is: you have no basis for that judgment.

By the way, Japan has a much higher suicide rate than the US. So I suppose can just say that the barbaric lack of income opportunity in the over-regulated, overly-"egalitarian" Japan cause people to kill themselves. That argument is better than yours, there's probably some truth to it.

Answer 2

You can call a dung heap a rose but it won't make it smell any better. Japan is not an egalitarian society. They have hierarchical society. An egalitarian society would be like the former Soviet Union, North Korea, Zimbabwe. Check out their life expectancy.

They are also a mono-racial society so it also might be interesting to see what the life expectancy of Japanese living in America might be.

Answer 3

I am a Canadian who lives very nearly the US border, and travels to the US no less than three-four occasions in line with yr. I have found out a couple of matters, a few comparable and a few unrelated to well being care, that make Canadians outlast Americans. First off, Americans are absolutely fatter than Canadians. I believe that there are plenty of matters that give a contribution to this, adding bodily endeavor, the low-cost quick meals (in Canada, areas like McDonald's fee greater than they do within the US), and the element sizes that you simply get within the US while you consume out. Not simplest that, however the apparel sizes are rather just a little higher within the US. I was once down there looking with a pal who wears a measurement two-four in Canada, relying on in which she stores. When we had been within the states, she was once attempting on 00's that had been too colossal on her. In so much shops, she was once confined to looking within the youngsters phase. Secondly, all Canadians have same entry to well being care. This signifies that any one can acquire the equal high-quality of care. Meanwhile, within the US, the whole quantity of uninsured folks is greater than the complete populace of Canada. I believe that an extra aspect in Canadians residing longer is the stipulations that we are living in. Although we have now folks who're Type A personalities, by and large, Canada is solely run and mounted in some way that contributes to a extra at ease perspective. For instance, up right here, whilst I had my daughter, I acquired a yr off of labor paid to do matters like breastfeeding, and my business enterprise needed to warranty my task (or a identical function) whilst I was once completed my yr. In the US, I pay attention that this interval is 6 weeks. We too can take matters like scientific go away and loved ones go away if we have got to. As good, in which I are living, we get three weeks of paid excursion after we begin a task, and this duration of time is going up relying on how lengthy you stick with an business enterprise. There are folks running for our organization who get 6 weeks of paid excursion in a yr! As for the amount of cash spent on well being care, sure, Canada does spend much less on well being care to hide each person than the US does. Part of that is administrative. In Canada, we don't manage HMO's, coverage organizations, and so forth. Also, some thing to notice is that, within the US, traditionally steeply-priced systems are used (considering extra gains may also be made) than the low-cost possible choices. My pal is a radiation therapist, and as aspect of her reports, she went to the US to paintings in a melanoma sanatorium for a time period. She mentioned that, despite the fact that it is been confirmed an verified that, for instance, four beams of radiation cure will kill ultimate prostate melanoma cells, within the US clinics, they had been utilising 10. When she requested why, one of the crucial women on the sanatorium was once sincere together with her and informed her that, despite the fact that they knew that it was once greater than what was once wanted, they billed the coverage organization in line with beam, in order that they had been stimulated to make use of the highest quantity of radiation that could no longer purpose damage to the sufferer. She found out in speakme to extra folks within the well being care subject, that this was once traditionally the case within the US, which was once the biggest contributing aspect to bigger well being care expenses.

Answer 4

well I think that americans are dying younger, because so much of the population is overweight