[ExI] Declining Life Expectancies in U.K & U.S

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 1:25 PM, SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com> wrote:

> we spend higher percentages of our GDP on our medical systems
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> 1. A bag of saline can cost $600 or more in US
> 2. I was charged $750,000+ for 30 days in the hospital (I did not require
> any surgery or imaging)
> 3. Lack of preventative care
> 4. Lack of quick access to medical doctors do to lack of fund -- use of ER
> when GP visit is more appropriate
> 5. Poor food quality
> 6. Poor nutrition guidelines
> 7. Lack of exercise (US uses cars for everything)
> 8. The combination of obesity and diabetis
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I have read and been educated and informed by reading books and articles by
Atul Gawande. If you don't know him, you should.  He deals with some of the
very inequalities in costs and prices you list above. He is a NYC surgeon.
  bill w

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