The Secretary of Health and Human Services says that Republicans want you to die quickly, just like that fun-loving former Congressman from Orlando. Of course, it’s hard to know why she would object to that, given that (as Ed Driscoll notes) other administration members seem to be all in favor of people dying quickly.
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The fuss is really over who dies quickly…
All the bureaucratic and financial tinkering with our health care system in the world will only alleviate, not solve the its main problem, and that’s the longstanding fact that people are living a lot longer than when Social Security went into effect in 1935. Where are the Transhumanists when you really need them? People like Dr. Anthony Atala at Wake Forest University’s Institute of regenerative medicine need to get much bigger budgets.
Longer life expectancy is not the source of our high health care costs. Compared to other rich nations (UK, France, Japan, Germany, Italy, Canada, Spain) the US has the smallest fraction of residents over 65, and by far the highest health care costs.
Having an older population is not the main problem with our health care system.
Right Jim — because according to those unequalized statistics American life expectancy runs about 40 years behind Europe’s — for the same reason their infant mortality numbers are so low.
Even from you Jim, this latest statistic is rather silly. Of course the US has the smallest fraction of the population over 65, largely because of the size of its UNDER 65 population. Europe has an extremely low birthrate, which means the lower end of its demographic spectrum is shrinking, inflating its upper end in proportion. By your absurd reasoning, the Japanese and South Koreans are even healthier societies…are you seriously suggesting emulating their demographic suicide?
As for European societies being healthier in terms of treatment…that has been debunked so many times I am not going to waste my (employer’s) time slapping you around again. On (very rare) occasions you bring something worthwhile to the conversation…this wasn’t one of those….