Surely it’s not remotely shocking. If I woke up from a six-month coma today and you told me “the US did far better than Italy managing a global pandemic,” THAT would shock me.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1302774315583037441 …
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There's no real public health, tho. Many people don't have health insurance, and the country has been okay for decades w poor people dying prematurely due to no healthcare. There's also climate change denial. I didn't think the right would deny medical science too, but they did.
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And residents of the hardest hit state got with the program early.
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Comparing per capita health spending in the US to that of a country with (much more cost-effective) universal health care isn't very useful. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-healthcare-expenditure?xScale=log&endpointsOnly=1&time=1995..2014&country=USA~ITA …
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We know the money the US spends on healthcare isn’t particularly well spent
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Italy’s average age is also 47, while America’s is 37. They also are not particularly well governed.
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