Americans Are Dying Faster, including Millennials

[Carlybee]

This is why we need universal healthcare.

Yes because the government is so good at running healthcare initiatives that many doctors refuse Obamacare and Medicare. I'm sure good doctors will line up to have their fees reduced even more.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

It is going to be a while. Zippy is not in a good mood today.

Why not? Did Hillary die?

 

[John F Kennedy III]

Shit, why am I supposed to quit smoking again?

 

[Origanalist]

Shit, why am I supposed to quit smoking again?

So you won't die of lung cancer, you will die of something else instead. Great news comrade!!

 

[DamianTV]

Shit, why am I supposed to quit smoking again?

Human Livestock Management Practices - Quality Assurance Department.

(As Stefan Molyneux would put it...)

 

[euphemia]

Some people, according to the article, are in bad health because they put themselves there. A few years ago there was a loooong article about people getting booted off TennCare (what was negotiated to keep us out of HillaryCare). One example was two people from some podunk county out in rural Tennessee that were fat and diabetic, and they wanted gastric bypass supposedly to save their lives. They didn't have insurance because the wife worked for her little municipality and wouldn't pony up for the $70 a month it would take to insure them. So they thought the citizens of Tennessee should work harder to pay for their surgery when she couldn't even pry her butt out of her office chair to walk around the block twice during lunch.

Give me a break. When alcohol poisoning (sounds like binge drinkers), liver disease (again with the alcohol), and overdoses account for the earlier deaths of a subgroup, that has to tell you that people have more time and money than they have sense. Take away the student loans and other subsidies. When people have to work hard for their money they might be too tired to do the other stuff.

 

[donnay]

In b4 Zippy.

RE: Americans Are Dying Faster, including Millennials


Short answer: Because they are systematically poisoning us.

 

[Suitandtie]

I know why I'm going to end up being dead before I'm 50. It's from all this damn stress. Aint the food, aint the medical bills, aint anything like that.

All this stress is weighing me down. All the thing si got to juggle around. Eating kale aint going to fix that.

 

[timosman]

Shit, why am I supposed to quit smoking again?

To make sure your organs are in a good state when donated collected.

 

[timosman]

I know why I'm going to end up being dead before I'm 50. It's from all this damn stress. Aint the food, aint the medical bills, aint anything like that.

All this stress is weighing me down. All the thing si got to juggle around. Eating kale aint going to fix that.

When was the last time you had a day you did not have to worry about anything?

 

[oyarde]

So we can die even faster?

Yes , then they do not have to try and pay benefits they garnished wages for and no longer have the monies .

 

[oyarde]

$#@!, why am I supposed to quit smoking again?

That has got to be one of the biggest scams ever . If everybody really did quit , where are they going for the 2 , 3 and more dollars per twenty cigarettes that is currently being collected ? What they really want is for you to work at 15 and start paying taxes , smoke and die at 61 with no school aged children , then they keep all medicare , medicaid and social security monies they stole .

 

[DamianTV]

That has got to be one of the biggest scams ever . If everybody really did quit , where are they going for the 2 , 3 and more dollars per twenty cigarettes that is currently being collected ? What they really want is for you to work at 15 and start paying taxes , smoke and die at 61 with no school aged children , then they keep all medicare , medicaid and social security monies the stole .

Exactly. Which is why it is so damn hard to keep your own hard earned money, but easy as shit to give it to them.

Human Product Quality Control

 

[MelissaWV]

I find that laughable, when you consider that, depending on whose numbers you want to believe, anywhere from 80,000 to 250,000 people die every year due to mistakes, errors, $#@!ups and "medical misadventure" at the hands of the healthcare system.

In spite of that, people are "going to the doctor", in record numbers, with insane amounts of money being spent to do so.

I find it laughable because he said "preventable" care by accident. That's mostly what it is: preventable.

I do think that the entire way the system works could be revamped a million ways to the patient's advantage, one of which would be to consider those visits diagnostic in nature. Getting an MRI or a CAT for one reason or another is sometimes very important, but the "mother may I?" prerequisites coupled with the mandatory follow-ups are stupid. The same can be said for most blood or urine screenings. Let me know the results (which already have handy-dandy stars by them if they are out of nominal range) and let me move along.

As a short response to the OP premise, I would say stress and genes and environmental poisons.

You ask those REALLY old folks about their lives, and they are not counting calories or exercising to meet metrics. They exercise because their lives require movement. They are sharp because they still tell stories to their kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, and anyone who will listen (and they are usually from cultures that listen). They eat what they want, but most times what they have available to want in the first place is largely rather good, basic food. They are eating bacon and cheese in their old age, but that bacon isn't chemically-aided microwave bacon and that cheese is not "cheese food." They really aren't stressing about their cholesterol being high or low or whatever the latest thinking is. They laugh at all these people that are this damned worried about every microscopic part of their lives.

Genes have been altered by the environmental poisons we come into contact with but, beyond that, people who normally would not have kids are having them. I know a number of families like mine, where the grandparents had trouble coming up with viable children, but through repetition and the odds in general, they were able to have some eventually. Hospitals kept the mother from dying during the repeated attempts, or bleeding out during the pregnancies that did not end so well. The next generation had trouble, too, but now there were more monitors and experts and programs to help conception. By the time the next generation came around, the fact that genetic problems kept them from conceiving naturally was a laughable stumbling block, so long as insurance paid for it. The thing is, sometimes that difficulty in conception is due to other issues. There were a lot of little kinks and issues that were passed along to children who really would not exist otherwise. And that will be passed along through subsequent generations as well.

Environmental poisons are taking their toll, too, but not all of them are obvious or even acknowledged. Agent Orange claims are quietly piling up. Gulf War Syndrome isn't really talked about. At home, there were modern marvels in the form of plastics... that were not really safe. Changes to food, shortcuts for convenience, and the quickest possible ways to get food on the table so that both parents could work and then pretend they had "made" a meal equal to what they would have had if the ingredients had been clucking or in the ground a few days ago.

Just my $0.02

 

[Firestarter]

The objective of health care in our world that’s upside down is reduction of the population: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08...eral-advocated-global-population-control.html

The brother of the famous writer Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, was director of UNESCO from 1946 from 1948. He later cofounded the eugenetics movement WWF (together with Bilderberg cofounder Prince Bernhard). He repeatedly stressed the need for population reduction and eugenetics. See the following quote.
“On a more positive note, population growth rates have been declining globally, largely as a result of expanded basic education and health care. That trend is projected to lead to a stable world population in the middle of the twenty-first century… The current decline in population growth rates must be further promoted through national and international policies that promote economic development, social development, environmental protection, and poverty eradication, particularly the further expansion of basic education, with full and equal access for girls and women, and health care, including reproductive health care, including both family planning and sexual health, consistent with the report of the International Conference on Population and Development”

Bill Gates (the so-called richest man in the world) has explained why the Gates Foundation spends so much time and energy in fighting for polio and AIDS:
“First we’ve got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people; that’s heading up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really good job on new vaccines, health care [and] reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent”

Fortunately philanthropic organisations like Negative Population Growth are doing what they can to reduce the population: http://www.npg.org/
In the USA the costs for health care per capita are the highest in the whole wide world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita