What have we become? This is disgusting.

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1. What’s even more disappointing is how many people will passionately defend this blatant failure in policy.

2. We have become a country of the brainwashed. Stockholm syndrome. Mission accomplished.

3. I literally just put this figure in a presentation at work (cited it ofc)

4. Remember this whenever conservatives claim that universal healthcare would be too expensive

5. It’s our food and lack of exercise. We are doing this to ourselves, not in a big picture type of way. We are literally doing it to ourselves by eating bad food and not exercising. We are disgusting.

6. The problem isn’t necessarily not being able to afford to get sick, but rather not being able to afford to be healthy.

   Our obesity rates are unprecedented.
   We eat junk with additives literally outlawed in other countries.
   We don’t have sick time so we spread diseases and take longer to recover from illness.

   Our healthcare won’t be affordable until our lifestyles improve. We need to promote healthier eating, exercise, and overall wellness. Imposing that on people is very anti-libertarian in nature and will meet a lot of resistance.

   I look at obesity like smoking. You know it is bad for you, you know it dramatically reduces quality and length of life, you know changing your lifestyle will be difficult, but others shouldn’t have to pay for your health choices.

7. It’s no shock given the situation with health insurance in the US.

8. The sad thing is most of the difference is self-inflicted – stress, obesity, food, pollution, drugs, violence.

9. People will be people. As long as some benefit from what’s happening, (or think they’ll benefit lol), they won’t care and will support whatever happens. Unfortunately, it’s not just the “top 1% rich”. People who are doing well, (good career, decent pay, decent savings ECT) support this as well. As long as it doesn’t effect their wallets, they are ok with it, support it, or simply don’t care. The sad truth. Instead, focus on getting your career/financial freedom in place. Only thing you can do.

10. We are cows. Milked for profits.

11. Don’t worry, I am sure deregulation of the EPA, FDA, HHS, and other essential federal agencies will improve our life expectancy.

12. Where is all that money going?

13. Look at most people’s lifestyles.
    Shit diet, minimal exercise, maximum screen time, hedonism and an endless cycle of chasing feel good and happiness.

14. RFK and Trump just told us that this is because we have too much healthcare. That the reason we’re lagging in all measurable Health outcomes vs other countries is because we’re overprescribed medications and not because we’ve spent decades polluting our farmland and water, deregulating food production, and making healthcare inaccessible.

15. Remember when Michelle Obama tried to get sodas out of schools, and she was called a communist? Apparently trying to stave off diabetes is evil behavior to a political party, but great for their friends at the health insurance companies

16. It’s the extraction of wealth.  It’s happening on all fronts, but healthcare is one of the most frustrating and egregious.  They are taking our money and rationing care and access to care.  We are getting killed and they are getting rich

17. Planned obsolescence of poor human beings

18. Hey: the shareholders are getting great returns though. Totally worth it.

19. The us have become the capitalistic dream

20. Have Americans ever considered that this is planned?

21. I bet that that curve is gonna plummet in the next 15 years.

22. Murder and car wrecks…..

    MURDER AND CAR WRECKS…

    Obesity….

    Utah… 78 year life expectancy…
    Nevada… 76….

    This is about lifestyle… (Or atleast a huge part is)

23. Fast Food America!!!!🇺🇸

24. 🌭 🍕 🍔 and 🥤 for 30 minute lunch breaks

25. Fat, rich, and poor lifestyle choices. We work more, spend more, stress more, and exercise less.
    Resulting in a population that needs more medical intervention per capita and with more resources to spend.

26. that’s why we need luigi, please support luigi

27. A failing crony capitalism illusion of democracy pyramid scheme. This is the final form before it crumbles.

28. Keep underfunding your public school system and you’ll get more idiots voting for a clown rapist.

29. I saw this and though do not disagree , would “ enjoy” digging thru contributors to what impacts this. What if you took out fentanyl deaths for instance?

30. Huh. Started right around the 80s. I wonder what happened then…

    REAGAN RUINED EVERYTHING.

31. This is what we’ve ALWAYS been for a lot of the minorities and poor people in the US.

    The systems just becoming too broken to ignore/ blame the poors for systemic issues

32. This highlights the USA’s murder problem just as much as the spending problem.

33. The problem is that there are too many complaints and very few possible solutions.

    The medical industry is a $ 3.7 trillion annual industry.

    They care more about keeping you sick and not dead than treating you.

    Our food and big pharma are very likely the problems.

34. Yes, but if you plot life expectancy of rich people in the US, it will look like those other countries. That’s how the rich want it. Good life for them, fuck everyone else.

35. So many people are trying so hard to take the profit out of providing health care.

    For some odd reason, a lot of people think we can get the highest quality at the lowest price with every product and service except health care.

36. It’s so far out of step that I have to question the data source. I know we’re in bad shape…but **this** bad?

37. We’ve become a country that plumps health care profits without being held accountable for outcomes. That’s not in doubt.

    The real question is what do we do about it? Luigi’s behavior is meant things, but it isn’t a solution.

38. If Trump got rid of Elon Musk and D.O.G.E all these fireings and cuts. We might survive as a Nation and America can get back on it’s feet again.

39. Because most of our systems are broken. And were never meant to be fixed when greed is the forefront of the 1% who could change this. Creating sick care instead of true healthcare. Creating class wars and finger pointing at the problems to distract us from the fact that they have been slowly destroying and stealing from us this whole time. When greed is the priority nothing else will ever matter regardless of birth rates declining or not. Life expectancy decline doesn’t matter when there is more money that can be made on the illnesses. They know about the life expectancy they did it. Look at our foods, our medicines literally everything that surrounds us. It’s truly disgusting.

40. The one thing I have become so sick of with America is how it has turned extracting money from people into a precise science. I mean everything, not just healthcare. And the amount of FUCKING ads we have plastered in our faces every moment. I used to consider myself a patriot but hey a country is nothing more than its people and its policies. The people elected Trump and the policies are horrendous so what does that make America?

    I think America is now fully riding on the momentum of its past and that momentum is quickly running out. Maybe I should be typing this on r/Rants but who exactly are the Trumpers planning on building their next generations of stealth bombers and other fancy military crap they love to salute before football games?

41. Hate the conclusion (cause it’s true), but god do I love that graph.

42. People, people, this is just as of 2018. Wait until the new head of HHS gets to work. We’re gonna need a new y-axis on our chart here.

43. Amazing where the downward spiral starts is when Regan was elected.

44. #**Republican and conservative Americans really hate this country and their countrymen and countrywomen**.
    When they are asked should we provide healthcare, food, education to our sisters and brothers, **they literally vote no.** *Republicans continually fuck up society and democrats have to constantly fix the messes.*

45. Remove every last Republican and things will get better. We’ve just got some toxic, dead weight, dragging us down.

46. That type of graph might make you think that perhaps, just perhaps, the Europeans might actually be on to something with this whole work-life balance, fund decent healthcare thing. As opposed to the drain/squeeze/mangle every last drop of productivity and life out of the populous in the name of economic growth and enriching the 0.1% culture in the US. 

47. As you can clearly see in the graph it’s literally always been like this. So what’s your question?

48. But the area between the lines represent sweet sweet profit for certain people. What about them? /s

49. Sthu, you people in your echo chamber wouldn’t believe the truth if it mushroom stamped ya.

50. Americans are morbidly obese, love drugs and guns, and think vaccines give them AIDS. You could defund the entire US military and it still wouldn’t be enough to pay for their healthcare.

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