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Efficiency of Our Healthcare Systems

by KyleOS on 7/9/19, 12:32 PM with 25 comments

• by vikramkr on 7/9/19, 12:44 PM

  I think the opioid crisis is more the problem than "inefficient healthcare"[1]

  Inefficient healthcare sounds like it's just that ambulance transit times are too long or that there's too much paperwork. It doesn't bring to mind "pharma companies getting consumers addicted to opioids later triggering a massive addiction crisis that nobody is equipped or prepared to tackle"

  [1] http://thenationshealth.aphapublications.org/content/49/1/1....

• by brightball on 7/9/19, 1:20 PM

  Honestly, I'm happier to see an article talking about efficiency problems rather than just how to pay for it. I'd much rather our efforts on healthcare reform revolve around fixing the problems than paying for them.

• by kaiju0 on 7/9/19, 2:18 PM

  https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929.php

  Our number one reason for dying is heart disease. This tracks pretty well with the obesity epidemic. Likely is one of the primary factors.

  Drug epidemics, medical efficiency and others are much smaller factors.

  We really need to sin tax food that hits our pleasure receptors. But mess with a persons favorite food and watch what happens. Doubt there is the will to move the needle in the right direction.

• by pg_bot on 7/9/19, 2:04 PM

  Americans on average engage in riskier and unhealthier behaviors than people in similarly developed countries. It is unfair to place the full blame on the medical system for lower life spans when they are not causing them.

  The people with the highest life expectancy in the world are Asian-Americans living in NJ.