Thursday, June 16, 2011

Life Expectancy in the U.S. for Women is Falling

CBS reports on a new study showing that life expectancy among women is dropping. Huh, who would have thought that? The CBS anchor seems shocked, but see here, here and here.

The report includes absurd pics of obese people with a comment from one woman who says she loves her fried food, as though people just started eating fried food. What's really going on is that the quality of medical service is starting to decline in the country, as healthcare becomes a more bureaucratic industry. It's not surprising the expectancy is declining among the poor in poorer counties first, those are the areas that have become most dependent on government medical care. But what is starting in the poorer counties will spread through out the country as the government spreads its suffocating tentacles over the industry. Price controls and bureaucratic management don't work in other sectors of the economy, and they won't in the healthcare industry either. Amazingly. despite witnessing the collapse of socialism and communism from China to Eastern Europe, people in America are being hoodwinked into introducing government control and influence in the healthcare industry in America.

4 comments:

  1. Some studies cited at Mark's Daily Apple (a Lew Rockwell regular) suggest that fried foods have actually become more unhealthy since lard became substituted with vegetable oils. Since the nanny state started doling out nutritional advice, it has likely done much more harm than good. Not directly what you're describing, but in the same vein.

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  2. On top of that we have genetically modified foods that started getting introduced in large amounts in the past decade...studies on animals show it is a health disaster and I expect that is already impacting life expectancy. Government distortions in the food market are ultimately to blame, most people would probably avoid GM food if it was on the label.

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  3. Bob English is right. It has a lot more to do with inflammation problem brought on by high amounts of omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids as well as sugar and grains.

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  4. The problem is not government control but misspending: I'm writing from Europe. We have the world's best public health system... and in general terms it's totally government provided or controlled. Costs there are much much lower and life expectancy is higher. The US has a problem of efficiency in resource allocation --> it's healthcare money goes towards feeding the industry, not healing its people. Actually MORE government control and price fixation might be just what it needs!

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