I’m pretty sure Israel’s numbers exclude some lives.
North American racial categories don't translate directly to the apartheid regime in Israel-Palestine. There are Jewish Israelis of colour and Muslim Palestinians who look like your average white person (cf. Ahed Tamimi).
Israel is a Western settler-colonial project; it is racist as fuck.
- Birth control shots forced on [Jewish] Ethiopian women
- Invention of the Mizrahim Israel invented the word Mizrahim to strip Arab Jews of their histories as they tried to do with Palestinians.
TL;DR American healthcare has middlemen extracting profit as a rule, and are the only developed country where that is the case.
But if we're judging the quality vs. cost of the healthcare itself, excluding people who won't be given healthcare because it's an apartheid state is fairly reasonable, because we're comparing the 'civilized' healthcare systems and their efficiency.
If you want to compare disparity in healthcare you're going to need a much more complicated matrix; comparing between class, ethnicity, and religion within a country, and then also between countries, would probably give you a better answer...and it would still end in America ridiculously overpaying for shitty healthcare.
Here's the weird thing.
Those other countries up there? They aren't living on the US teat : they pay for their own healthcare. Getting this revolving handout from America isn't the real distinguisher here, even if it makes great headline copy.
Countries as poor as Cuba and as rich as Israel can get proper healthcare, or some freemium bullshit downward spiral in-between, all self-funded.
Yeah this is a tiring shitpost. That's not a correlation. We fund a Middle East nuclear bomb outpost for the West's new cold war AND we have oligarch driven shitty healthcare.
People need to get offline and read actual history, polisci and sociology books before drawing conclusions or bullhorning them.
Oh, so you’re saying they completed a successful test run of socialized medicine using US tax dollars and proven it effective? Sounds like we’re ready for a national rollout.
Defund and divest, baby. Money for health and education, not for war and occupation.
USSA can only roll out the fallout
Bro, I ain't trying to live 5 extra years in America.
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I thought the reason they were raising the social security age was because "people are living longer". That is what I just read yesterday.
It’s a bit complicated, but yes and no. Is life expectancy in the us falling? Yes. Is life expectancy still longer than when the previous social security age was chosen? Also yes. And also factor that baby boomers are going to draw from it soon, and the middle class is shriking pushing people into poverty, that means a smaller amount of people who can’t be taxed as high. Also law makers are plundering the funds and putting in IOU’s they never intend to honor, to fund other things, using treasury bonds.
So right now social security will falter around 2030, and the pay out will fluctuate depending on how much the current work force can be charged. At that moment, it looks like 20% lower, and it will fall from there unless things change
Dude that's weak sauce. Good for people for living longer. Good for everyone involved.
This isn't true, according to AFP
What that link states is 'Experts refute claims that Israelis get free US medical treatment', which is unrelated to the OP post.
