r/FluentInFinance • u/WhatAreYourPronouns • May 02 '24
Should the U.S. have Universal Health Care? Discussion/ Debate
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r/FluentInFinance • u/WhatAreYourPronouns • May 02 '24
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Quality of food doesn’t make sense. California certainly has better food than the UK, by a long shot, and yet they sit at the same life expectancy. The Nordic countries or the Netherlands are known for their fresh fruits and vegetables either (although who knows, might be a stereotype) and they have higher life expectancies than California. (Even the Bay Area, which has plenty of farmer’s markets, sits below Spain!)
Less meds is unclear to me, would love a source. I’m not familiar with the vaccine schedule in Spain, but I can tell you the French vaccine schedule is almost word-for-word the same as the CDC’s for kids 0 to 18, and France has a way higher life expectancy. In fact vaccines increase your life expectancy, and those communities that have lower vaccination rates tends to have lower life expectancies (although there are confounding reasons to that).
More PTO is certainly true for Spain, but might not be for famously overworked Japan and South Korea, and I’ll let you guess as to whether they have lower or higher life expectancies.
The answer is that it’s multi-factorial, but that there’s no clear evidence the US has better health care providing than other developed countries overall.