Why is American Life Expectancy So Low?
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After years of a constant climb, the US is appearing to be lagging behind in life expectancy, even declining further following the coronavirus pandemic. In this video, we explore what factors are driving this negative slump in life expectancy as well as how hard it would be to overturn it (hint: it's pretty hard).
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Americans: Make healthcare too expensive too use.
Eat like they have free healthcare.
Drive everywhere, don't walk or exercise.
Also Americans: Why are we dying young?
@Zaydan Alfariz yo. I know that Indonesia is moving its capital city. But what about those who live in former capital city. Will they be moved to New capital?
That's the problem for America healthcare as it too expensive that many people can't pay
They are forced to drive everywhere because their laws force cities to be built like car hellscapes where you die if you walk but roads are also so unsafe that you die from crashes more than Europe.
Or and bad regulations means car companies pay less taxes selling suvs compared to real cars, so they push all Americans to drive SUV's and now you have around 150 kids dying each year from parents driving their own kid over in the driveway because the SUV's are too unsafe and tall to see them
@Zaydan Alfariz not free but almost. Its like $10 for 1st class $7 for 2nd class $3 for 3rd class per month. Usa can copy this make simply national insurance and charge it cheap
Free healthcare doesn’t improve a country in any way. It’s a massive fund sink, and every citizen dies anyways.
i am socked that you didn't mention the lack of affordable healthcare, and it's certainly the cause of the massive drop during the pandemic
@@alexpotts6520 3:06
@@alexpotts6520 the graph showed that at the top end of earners, UK and US life expectancy are the same. The lower end had the biggest gap
The poorest in the US are the people with access to free healthcare in the US. Approximately 100 million Americans are covered under Medicaid. AKA government subsidized healthcare. Alot of this is about lifestyle choices, Doctors can pressure patients but they can't force them to eat better and live healthier lives.
You don’t actually pay to get treated. Doctors have to treat you regardless of whether you pay or not. A lot of people who can’t afford it simply don’t pay.
Also in most cases insurance (mostly employer provided) covers your healthcare and really, the vast majority of Americans actually pretty well covered
Unhealthy Food and other factors mentioned in the video is a bigger factor
@@chickenfishhybrid44 just because poor people have Medicare doesn't mean all their medical problems are magically solved. Yes it helps alot with generic prescriptions and co-pays but those are the lower end costs. surgeries, tests, and patent medicine still relies on out of pocket, heck even insulin has out of pocket costs.
As an American, I would like to add some additional points. The first is that most American have unhealthy diets and lifestyles. The design of cities and suburbs is such that most people must drive cars instead of walk for even routine errands such as buying basic groceries. (In fact, due to the way streets are designed and the increasingly-ubiquitous oversized pickups and SUV's, it can be downright dangerous to be a pedestrian in many towns.) In addition, the consumption of junk food and sugary drinks is off the charts, and the adult obesity rate now stands over 40%. I'm often shocked when I drive to the store and in the checkout lines there are morbidly obese parents with obese children buying multiple 3-liter bottles of soda and bags stuffed full of candy and other highly-processed food. There is simply no health discipline with many people. In addition to the unhealthy lifestyles, many Americans with no health insurance or insurance with a huge deductible choose not to seek medical care for a health problem until it becomes a full-blown crisis due to fear of medical bankruptcy.
It's amazing that people still call the US a superpower. It's a country with an oversized military. It's not a superpower and hasn't been one for decades.
Now there is this insanity of a political movement that pretends that obesity is somehow not unhealthy! “Healthy at all sizes”, “far acceptance”, etc. There’s even this revolting obese woman who’s a full time model and influencer called Tess Holliday, and this quack lesbian doctor telling falsehoods called Lindo Bacon (who seems to be attracted to obese women). And given that many younger obese people are essentially spoiled children; they lap this absurdity up. Wait until these idiots get older and their body begins packing in…
The US used to have Home Economics in public schools. Cooking Healthy food used to be taught.
But the feminist found this to be offensive, so it was removed.
@@andrewmattox1233 Are you sure that home economics was dropped from the curriculum?
I live in the UK and have a brother who's 6 foot 3 and 19 stone (pretty darn big). He says he enjoys going to the US because he feels skinny when he's there! Which makes me wonder how big the average American is.
I taught overseas for much of my adult life. When I moved back to the US a few years ago, I realized two things even before I left the airport upon arrival:
1. We are very overweight
2. Our mass media is saturated with prescription drug advertisements.
Is there a correlation between the two?
Gun Shot injury.
No, but those are very undesirable in any case.
@@engineeringvision9507 Are you high? Or did I miss the sarcasm? That is possible, because I'm high.
@@JanjayTrollface Those two are uncorrelated, but neither of them is a desirable situation.
You're just scratching the surface
1) lack of affordable health care
2) 'food' that couldn't even be imported into the EU due to poor quality
3) poor education of the majority of the population, also when it comes to a healthy lifestyle
I mean it's not just the low education. There is a huge correlation between economic status and obesity. The cheapest food is junk.
We aren’t poorly educated about our health this is just typical European chauvinism, poverty & obesity correlate & our cheapest food as u said is horrible quality, we aren’t cavemen, we know it’s unhealthy but the FDA is bought out just like the rest of our government & they will never stop allowing garbage into our products
@@deshistoiresdesombres1936 "I mean it's not just the low education. There is a huge correlation between economic status and obesity. " IQ? All those variables strongly correlate, but IQ is slightly better predictor of life expectancy then education or income.
Don't forget number 4. An event exclusive to the USA called, school shootings.
Ellie grow up. Have you ever been to the US? Another European coping about America meanwhile your entire continent is addicted to American culture, entirely reliant on us and is our vassal.
The car dependcy of us city is definitely a big factor of why their life expectancy is like that
@Zaydan Alfariz Brunei has Medicare for all unlike US and their diet isn't as horrendous as Americans.
And flawed urban design and planning on top of that.
Healthcare is the big factor. Yes car dependancy and diet both contribute but the reality is that if you look at Canada they are basically the same in regards to those but have much better life expectancy. Why? Healthcare. If people cannot afford to see a doctor they die. It really is as simple as that.
Nah, that's pushing it. Other places are high on car dependency and don't have these values.
Owning a car isn't that great. It shouldn't have been normalized.
Opioid crisis and suicides. I graduated in 2012 from a very nice and peaceful little rural high school in northeast Ohio and of the 63 kids I’ve graduated with only 44 of us are still alive between overdoes, car accidents and suicides 😢
Wtf
That is insane.
I can barely believe it.
Cuisine: Unhealthy
Car: Dependency
Healthcare: Expensive and predatory
Guns: Yes
School shootings: Yes
Hotel, Trivago.
yeah, they will counter is, but "muhfreedom"
I'm pretty sure school mass shootings are a mental health problem and the exaggerated commentary by the mainstream media hosts are not helping
Even Brazil has a higher life expectancy
@@Antropovich don't blame it on guns, it doesn't shoot unless someone pulls the trigger
@@Gangly_arms serious, you are a Genius of mankind, are you American?🤣🤣🤣🐶🤮🤮🤣🤣🤮
Error: at 1:50 you compare the life expectancy of the US in 2021 to that of the US of 2003, but you said UK. For the UK it wouldve been 1997.
Yeah I was looking at that thing for half a minute, thinking I am getting the graph wrong.
@@Herr_Damit haha, glad I'm not the only one. Gonna lend my weight to move this up.
As a Gen Xer I am keenly aware of this phenomenon. I’ve actually seen more deaths this year than for the entirety of the pandemic. Depression underlies many of the risky behaviors you mentioned. Also it was incredibly difficult to manage any chronic conditions during the pandemic.
Well there’s been a lot of increase of “sudden deaths” since 2021, and i can tell you for sure it’s due to more wicked reason rather than “unhealthy eating” cause
Lies again? Easy Job Remove Stress
@@MrPolandballwhat’s the reason then, don’t fear monger if you’re not going to explain everything
Notjustbikes made a great video about American cars, and how bad they are for safety. It's not the early driving age, it's the distance from the ground/low visibility, bad crumple zones and car centric design
Also the cultural "if it's not a screaming metal gas guzzling deathtrap, it isn't American".
LOL you guys always want to complain about the US. It’s starting to come off as envy. I could tell you the real reason, but would it matter? Oh well.
And car crash noncompatibility. Suvs and f150 eat cars and babies for breakfast
I hate that guy. All complaining and no solutions outside cities. Just ignores so many factors. I support less car centric deisgns. But he his so annoying.
@@baronvonjo1929 densification is the only solution. Abandon the countryside for raw material industry or nature
I don’t think the USA car crashes are due to the licensing at a younger age, I think it would be better to consider that they drive to go everywhere and that the roads are easy to drive on because they are wider and more straight than in Europe. The issue with making driving easier is that can also create a false sense of security and cause you to stop focusing on the road.
Yes, but those things have always been true.
Also the kind of cars they drive (heavy SUVs)
@@naramoro beat me to it! Cars are getting bigger, and bigger cars are more dangerous.
Taxi driver overseas knew I was an American. He asked me why we are so obsessed with giant vehicles.
I assumed it was to create a false sense of safety.
Families drive massive SUVs in the hopes that when they get into an accident, they will be big enough to absorb the damage, rather than try to avoid the damage all together
@@hughjass1044 Totally agree 👍, the roads and licensing at younger ages have been true for a while now.
the imapact of ke$ha on american society has been devistating
😂😂😂😂
To be fair she did tell timber and now everyone is wondering why the early death tree has fallen on their heads
That college life was fun. Ke$ha was a true visionary.
@@joedalton77 it doesn't help that now american youths practice dental hygiene using bottlrs of tennessee whiskey
Some other factors are low access to cheap health care and healthy lifestyles. When I was in California, they were more concerned about how food could contain cancers but in Australia, we have a food rating system from 1 to 5 based on how healthy the food is, such as on cereals, drinks and fast foods.
Plus, it is a common stereotype that most Americans have a lack of education and/or aren't educated to save themselves. This could be the major issue with drugs, gun violence and mental instabilities
We in the EU 🇪🇺 have a rating ('nutri score') for food's nutrition value as well, ranging from A (colour green, using the traffic light system) to E (colour red).
Hence easy to understand even for children.
PS/addendum: we have the same system, also using the traffic light colours but using figures instead of letters, for information on animal living conditions connected to each food. Hence the customer can decide to contribute to decent conditions for animals by picking the food produced according to levels '3' = good or '4' = premium.
Also in Australia, they have labels on food packaging that explicitly show the amount of protein, carbohydrates, sugars, fats, saturated fats, and other things with ingredients labels too
America probably doesn't have anything like that
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 This kind of infomration has been mandatory in the EU 🇪🇺 since long. Including the info about the country of origin.
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 the US has such labels but only per serving size and only being in grams which is odd since they normally don't weight food in the metric system so it can't be too helpful to understand
@@tomlxyz oh nice, but i wonder how many food products have ∞ servings per product which each serving being 0g, so they have the sugar content of 0g
1. Preventable diseases
2. Paywalls for everyone. Even the poor.
3. Strong dependence on cars
4. Conflict and bullying
5. Everyone is expected to solve everything themselves. Even if there's a lot working against them.
@Apsoy Pike You have never been bullied then. That saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me'? I can tell you that last part is bulls***. Call it having a thin skin, but when it comes to being harassed daily, often in school environments, and the staff do the bare minimum to show that they're 'doing something' yet it actually does nothing to solve the issue...?
Yeah, bullying can lower life expectancy due to weaker willed people snapping.
@Apsoy Pike School stabbings and shooting statistics coming up next. Bullies very much enjoy bullying because who honestly who wouldn't
@@the_expidition427 And it only takes 1 kid deciding their going to hell and taking everyone with the, buy an automatic weapon because this is America, and deciding to reenact Columbine.
@@the_expidition427 And it only takes 1 kid deciding their going to hell and taking everyone with the, buy an automatic weapon because this is America, and deciding to reenact Columbine.
Preventable diseases are prevented in the US. Vaccines are very easy to get. Also paywalls for poor people? If you’re getting that low if pay and or don’t have the money Medicaid is very easy to get and will pay for most if not all medical cost. Also this does not explain why the life expectancy has dropped so much in the past two years. Which is why I mainly think it’s because boomers (the largest gen by far) are dying causing the numbers to go down.
It's surprising that the lack of affordable healthcare wasn't mentioned at all in this video
many (third world) countries with no healthcare have higher life expectancy than the US, so no, it's not healthcare. Americans just smoke and drink and live in too much debauchery...
I have to weigh in on this. My parents are about to be 84 and 80, shortly. They gave up the booze and cigarettes when they were younger and never did any illegal drugs that I know of. As I've gotten older, I'm shocked at the number of adults around my age, 60, that smoke, drink, and take several kinds of illegal substances, and no, I'm not complaining about marijuana, but some do that, too. My grandfathers lived into their 80s and my grandmothers both made it into their late 90s. What did they do? They kept up their friendships and family relationships until the end. Ate a fairly healthy diet, exercised, usually, got enough sleep, etc. Most of living longer isn't rocket science, contrary to what a lot of people seem to think. Work is important, too, but my younger sister has run herself into the ground through overwork.
I've been to Europe 15 times & numerous other foreign countries in the world! Americans work
way too much, rarely take vacations or "holidays" or simply know how to relax! This, plus not
exercising enough, eating too much "fast food".etc. leads to an early death!
@@rongendron8705 Americans know how to relax, we just can't afford to. The average American has 5 days of vacation a year compared to Scandinavia where most of the governments mandate about 30 days of time off a year. It isn't that Scandinavians are better at relaxing than Americans, it's that their government forces companies to give people 5x more time off than Americans get.
I must say this a good video TLDR and thank you for the work that you do , but a few of the stats that you have mentioned are a bit misleading in terms of it paints a picture half down. I do know you don't have all the time in the world and have a Schedule to follow and can't show all of that Data . But thank you for trying to bring light to something.
I don’t know how but you’ve managed to package an unbiased analysis that is more entertaining than the sensationalized segment of economic and financial news. Thank you for your efforts to be the signal and not the noise. I understand that the economy is currently in a downturn and that we must wait for things to get better
As hard as it may sound you can plan for the recession. If you are working, find extra work and get an Invest--advisor. Protect your deposits by having enough cash in short term fixed income. Then cut your expenses. Minimal insurance, cut utilities.
I think the current market might give opportunities to maximize profit within a short term, but in order to execute such strategy , you must be a skilled practitioner
Exactly why i enjoy my day to day market decisions being guided by a portfolio-coach, seeing that their entire skillset is built around going long and short at the same time both employing risk for its asymmetrical upside and laying off risk as a hedge against the inevitable downward turns, coupled with the exclusive information/analysis they have, it's near impossible to not outperform, been using a portfolio-coach for over 2years+ and I've netted over $800k.
Even if you have a humongous income you still need to draw up futuristic plans because anything can happen. One could lose one's job or whatever. Investment cannot be overemphasized. About your advisor, how does one reach pls
It would be a very innovative suggestion to look out for Financial Advisors like Monica Payne Tutorials who can help shape up your portfolio. Trying times are ahead, and good personal financial management will be very important to weather the storm.
The US has a much higher suicide rate and has had a lot of issues with drugs. Canton Ohio was using meat trailers as mobile mortuaries. These typically have a larger effect on younger people and really bring down the average. When a quarter don't make it to 60, the average will suffer. The mode for deaths in the UK and US is around 87.
only in ohio 💀
There is mental health issues in europe too.
The thigns is that in the US the availability of guns and drugs are probably increasing the numbers and the inability to access healthcare and helth services is a big issue too
In most EU countries for example you cant get certain types of painkillers (stronger ones, ususally containing harmful substances) unless they are prescribed by your doctors, or other medicines that will hurt you.
@@mattia8327 The UK has a suicide rate of 7.9 while the US is 13.9, almost 2x. There is also much easier access to illegal drugs via southern boarder. You typically need a prescription from doctors and there have been great strides in limiting more addictive meds. Thins seem to be going the right way but mental health is still an issue as is diet. But in the US are are more likely to get killed than a health issue than other nations.
Another point is that you see massive drop offs across state lines. Where I live in Massachusetts has similar life expectancies to the UK and Germany while Ohio’s hits closer to Hungary
That 14 driving age I believe is for farming equipment on like dirt roads, but for the most part the minimum driving age is still 16 for road with other cars on them and what not
Still much lower than 18 everywhere else
@Fr3devil true, but you can’t drive without any form of restriction until you like 18( I believe) like I know your not allowed to have friend in the car( non family members till your 18
Looking at traffic accident statistics of my country it almost makes me want to raise the cap from 18 to further heights, but we can probably say that's inexperienced drivers.
@@DefnitelyNotFred You can drive agricultural equipment on your land in the UK at age 13. Provisional licences for road vehicles can be obtained at the age of 17.
The lowest age for an intermediate license (with night restrictions) in South Dakota is 14 and 6 months, and not just for farm equipment. Other states allow for a learning stage (made out of an instruction permit and than learner's license) from 14 (6 states, including South Dakota) a few 14+, most 15 and very few 16. intermediate license is given, in most cases, at around 16 (with a few a bit sooner and one - New Jersey - at 17).
My mother's cousin (a Canadian living in the US), was denied essential health care by her insurance company...
1:50
The graph would imply they regressed to 2003 US. And 1998 UK.
My last boss would often talk the talk re culture and workplace family etc., everyone matters and is important and so on. Then Covid struck, and he quickly showed his true colors; nothing but a greedy corporate. The workers were literally only there to make him and the shareholders more money, and if you weren't quite performing and didn't fir the mold of their ideal company, you either got laid off, managed out, or the goal posts were shifted so that your KPIs became ridiculously difficult to consistently achieve. I had been at that company 10+ yrs, and before then staff turnover was low. Since I left, staff turnover has gone thru the roof. It's not as though people have 'followed me', but I suspect people have cottoned on to the Shareholders 'game', in saying one thing but actually doing the complete opposite. So in my view, I suspect that there are likely many others out there who had a similar experience and that's just another part contributing to 'The Great Resignation'. Yes i do recognize that it's thr shareholders company, and if they're working in the company, they call thr shots over its direction, but when they say they care, then take all the actions which suggest they don't, it doesn't really matter how they spin it, people see that that BS, realise they're being screwed over, and then they leave.
Anyone who’s experienced our health care and food systems know exactly why.
Why did you not mention cardio-metabolic disease at 4:08 ? Seems to me like it's quite important to acknoledge that this is an important part of the gap, and if you did look at it and found it was actually irrelevant / was not properly studied, then showing this information on screen and not talking about it is strange. Otherwise, good video I'd say :)
I was wondering that too, especially since the numbers for women were very interesting there.
I believe the term is "deaths of despair".
Really surprised healthcare and drug prices aren't mentioned. The majority of people on insulin actually ration their doses because we're getting price gouged over here and has often lead to deaths that could have been prevented.
at this rate, the age expectancy of the US will be declined into a Medieval farmer level
At 84 yrs, I guess I'm living on borrowed time.
Hey man you are beating the curve and you can probably last 10 or more if you will it.
You'll probably live to another 10 yrs pray that your grandchildren make it to 60
It can’t be understated how devastating the opioid epidemic has been in the US. As far as driving is concerned unfortunately there is very little that can be done there, transportation for living and working essentially necessitates a car, and there genuinely isn’t much that can be done about that. Sure in large cities public transit helps but anywhere outside of that a car is an absolute necessity.
It also doesn't help that oil and car companies and those who invest in them both lobby and astroturf against public transportation policies, its both the reason why it never expands and why it fails in the legislation.
@@eddapultstab2078 ok but big cities hold a massive amount of people & dramatically improving the health of millions in the cities will raise our overall life expectancy
@@anthonytitone I don't know how that effects my current argument but ok.
@@eddapultstab2078 it was meant for the top comment not urs, my bad
True but there’s only so much space within a big city and unless rent is artificially lowered across the board (which isn’t ever going to happen), people and families will eventually be priced out and move to the suburbs, where cars are needed. Accidents are just going to happen and while better infrastructure around public transit could undoubtably help, there’s only so much that can be done. To me the focus in regards to life expectancy should be around the opioid epidemic and the health (diet and exercise) of the average American. Those are two issues that are actionable and have the capacity to improve.
Why are these all coming on the Global rather than US channel?
I think the main reasons are
1)High medical bills
2)Very Unhealthy diets
3)lack of workouts or walks and driving everywhere
Here is a word US Americans dont like to pronounce: healthcare.
Oh we do, it's our government and old farts who don't.
I wonder if there is an inverse correlation between military spending and life expectancy
How could you forget the major problem? The majority of people do not have any medical insurance. This means that you have no way to go to the hospital because it costs thousands just to see doctors. No socialised healthcare means younger deaths. What does the UK have? Socialised healthcare.
Study: gets published
news person: I'm gonna read out every single number in there. Maybe not the page numbers, idk.
America is divided into tiny postal units called zip codes. Studies on life expectancies have been performed using zip codes as the comparative factor between Americans. Some zip codes have life expectancies as high as 90 years old and others as low as 63.
Well yeah some people are rich and some are poor cx so no shit the rich has a higher expectancy
@@justinallen2408 well but why should that be? Money doesn't cure any sickness or slow aging.
@@DB-gh4nj nowadays, it very much does do both of those things
Most of the world has similar codes revealing similar differentials.
@@jmjedi923 no it does not. And that you think that just shows how sick the system is. Doctors and medicine prolong ones life as well as the living conditions. It is in the hands of society to guarantee that everybody is able to get proper medical treatment and has a minimum standard if living. The USA fails miserably in that regard.
For everyone pointing to poor food, sedentary lifestyle, and car dependence, these are are long term factors that do not impact mortality in younger people. And it's deaths among the young that has pulled the US Life Expectancy.
Car dependency Leeds to a huge amount of traffic deaths though, especially among young people and children
@@andreafarina385 especially when they can start driving legally so early (and often need to do so)
Yeah and it's not like those things were absent when the US was st parity with the UK in LE.
US life expectancy for anyone who gets to 50/60/65 isn't great either
Car dependency drives extremely low standards for driver competency - it's practically house arrest to deny someone a car in most parts of the US. Thus getting a license entails demonstrating you can move the car 100m w/o ramming head on into something, and loosing it would require almost literally intentionally running down people on multiple occasions. The US legal system is extremely lenient with and deferential to drivers.
I do not agree the reason for the increased car deaths in the US is the low age requirement for driving. There is little evidence that young drivers are less capable or safe then older ones.
The reasons are car centric road design, SUVs and pick-up trucks being too big and unsafe for pedestrians and the absence of proper infrastructure for alternative transportation
One shot of liqueur every time he says "life expectancy" !
Extreme economic inequality has a lot to do with it. The lack of universal health care is one of the manifestations of this.
loads of reasons: substandard quality food, for-profit healthcare system, arguably the world's biggest car culture, and very poor public transport or fitness facilities.
Fitness facilities? Hilarious. The US in most cases has more of a workout culture than most of Europe.
@@chickenfishhybrid44 That's why 40% of americans are obese
@@chickenfishhybrid44 yeah I agreed with all but the fitness facilities. Those make good money, and in America cash your king. Plus you got to burn off that 64 ounce fountain drink, and make room for the foot long hot dog. Make sure to get the extra large heart stopping deluxe mega freedom fry with that. I'm an American, and I feel like I've spent my life randomly looking around and thinking to myself. "Wtf is going on?"
@dirt no I don't think it is actually. I'm specifically responding to thr above comment that seems to be claiming that the US has "very poor" fitness facilities which is insane. The majority of US High Schools for example have well equipped weight rooms and gyms. Not to mention the huge amount of private 24 hr and similar gyms.
@@richardlanier2113 school sports are more of a universal thing in the US than alot of Europe as well. I'm not commenting on poor diet choices or anything else. Fact is, I'll almost gurantee there's as much if not more Americans regularly going to the gym than alot of Europeans. countries.
Everything in the US is full of sugar, even bread, people do not cook but eat pre-processed food, no one walks, everyone drives.
Drugs, guns, cars, poor self-care, and lack of healthcare access. That would explain the difference.
Noam Chomsky praised the USSR for being an empire that starved itself for the sake of its sphere. The same can be said of the USA.
There's a correlation between inequality and lower life expectancy (as well as many other social problems). The neoliberal reforms of the 80's and 90's have seen many tax reductions, resulting in lower wealth redistribution, especially in the USA. There's a consensus that a supply-side policy like lowering taxes result in increased economic growth. As such, there seems to be a trade off between lower inequality and higher gdp growth. What do you think about this? What do you think of the proposed solution to lower corporate and income taxes while increasing consumption taxes (progressive consumption taxes?), to incentivise investment (strengthen the supply side) while still being able to redistribute wealth through the higher consumption taxes?
While there's a correlation, I doubt higher wealth redistribution would be a game changer if lower income households still can't access affordable healthcare, which seems to be one of the main problems in the US. Chile, with higher inequality (Gini coefficient) than the US and a third of the GDP (PPP) per capita than the US, has about 1.5 more years of life expectancy, mainly because it has better (not great) healthcare. The US needs to fix its healthcare, and they already have the resources for that.
"There's a consensus that a supply-side policy like lowering taxes result in increased economic growth"
Except that this consensus is wrong, plain and simple. Growth was stronger in the US and Europe when taxes were higher. Progressive consumption taxes, that's another thing which you seem to be using to take the piss. Consumption taxes are not progressive unless you remove all taxes on products that are most commonly consumed by the poorest and only tax items consumed by the wealthiest few.
@@pritapp788 the neoliberalism fan boys at visual economic claimed that Denmark has seen consistent strong growth because they have relatively higher consumption taxes. I see higher consumption equally as critical as you, but I thought the idea is worth exploring..
Poor diet, poor education, poor healthcare. This, in what is supposed to be the most advanced, and richest country in the world?
It’s almost like the lack efficient if at all social safety nets leaves people that fell on the ground.
I think men's mental health has a lot to do with it, I've been through some therapy (private at £1 per minute!) , and lived with poor mental health for 12 years and it's only got worse, I know I should talk to people but my throat closes up when I try to speak, there's something in us conditioned not to ask or seek help and they can override our normal sensibilities. It's pretty lonely and difficult to fight on our own, suicide and drug overdose (drug taking to cope) reckless driving due to apathy, easy reach of guns (not UK specific) are just seen as options
That's the point it's all irrational, but absolutely tragic
Sorry to hear. But your understanding of what's up is giving you a fighting chance. I think you're right though. Mental health isn't easily measured and it's impact can easily be categorized under other categories.
£1 a minute is actually pretty cheap... unfortunately
Hi, American here. From the blue parts, but not from any coast. So, keep in mind that US life expectancy tracks with economic and political orientation to a significant degree. It's really amazing how strongly it correlates. To be brief, if you are from a poorer, redder part of the country, this graph should scare the hell out of you. It is a combination of lack of healthcare and lack of jobs. These two things go hand in hand in the US - if you don't have a job, you don't have access to healthcare. The ACA barely began to address this problem. It makes it easier for a very, very small sliver of the population to get insurance by forcing insurance companies to carry anyone that applies. Prior to the ACA, if you had a preexisting condition (like...I dunno, pregnancy? Or hypertension?) good luck getting health care. Still, if you can't afford insurance, you will not have access to a doctor unless you can pay out of pocket. Good luck with that.
A personal anecdote: Late last year, I went back to the country to a funeral for a close relative. He was barely 65 when he died - in other words, just old enough to retire in the USA. He very much fits into this demographic. His younger brother (61?) is currently on kidney dialysis and needs a transplant. I don't know what his life expectancy is, but it can't be great. As an American, I can tell you that at a national level, no one cares about these people. Not even the people whom they vote for like Lauren Boebert or MTG, and certainly not Trump. This is what got us Trump and what will fuel the rise of whoever comes next.
It is no wonder things are the way they are in this country. The middle was hollowed out and now all that's left is a shell.
Life expectancy certainly tracks with people's economic situation, but a person's politics is not a significant factor, and it's unhelpful to make those kinds of claims.
I live in Texas. We have a lot of poor areas, but I don't live in one of them. My county lives an average of 81.2 years, and in 2020 79% of voters voted for Trump. OTOH, a friend of mine lives in Zavala which has a life expectancy of 77.1 years, and 65% of people voted for Biden, which is one of the highest in the state.
Again, simply putting it down to politics is not helpful, and it distracts from real issues. Rural people tend to vote right wing, but hospitals in rural areas tend to be poor and lacking in qualified staff. That makes healthcare in rural areas disproportionally more expensive, not only for the patients but for the providers. After all, the government is more than happy to continue healthcare being a labyrinthine nightmare of red tape, which falls on the providers to navigate, thus raising costs.
@@shaun7142 Sure.
Obese population, opioid crisis, gun violence, inaccessible healthcare, ...
I can think of a few reasons
A number of other people's comments I agree with to varying degrees, but I haven't seen any comments on the following topics: Student Loan Debt, hyper-competitive job markets and younger, trained workers can't compete with older workers not retiring on time (totem-pole issue), nor much awareness that tradesman jobs are in greater demand these days, but may lack the funds or having Learner Helplessness via Depression after going to college already and can't get a Living Wage job within normal expectations (back to Student Loan Debt); or the dementing of factionization by Ultras on either side of the political spectrum.
And then there's the "Essential Workers" and the maltreatment by customers and corporate entities because they can't even discipline their own lives and have a tendency to take it out on employees in retail shops with subtle forms of harassment or unrealistic profit margin goals. Let's not forget the "great" idea pitched by politicians decades ago to send what feels like nearly all Living Wage manufacturing jobs overseas in favor for poverty-level service jobs like retail. Then there's the older fear where some Americans can't consider living in another country to find a job for fear of being unjustly punished for being an American due to some political issue at the time. Stressful as that sounds, social interactions, especially with regard to politics, devolved into the blame game, which I don't feel up to talking about at the moment.
Now none of these are extreme cases yet, but one of these ever-stacking problems will break America eventually when said country focuses heavily on military per capita than most countries while cutting too many corners on Quality of Life programs with technocrats and politicians acting closer to aristocrats. I hope to be proven wrong in the future. I really do.
We eat more, we work more, we receive less vacation/time off, we don’t have universal healthcare so most don’t get preventive care or even go to the hospital at all, we chug down medication after medication…
You add in COVID, guns, drugs, & depression… you get modern day America.
If you look at life expectancy by state or by region, you will understand the disparity better.
Yeah, 'Murica for the win!!!
Very right! It's a major mistake to make a country-level analysis of a huge, populous federal republic like the US with immense disparities from one place to another and sometimes within the same state. Absolutely not the same thing as the UK or France.
I recall finnish liquorice candy is sold in american pharmacies as "blood pressure medicine", which just sounds crazy to me. Yes liquorice raises blood pressure but its still candy!
I think the biggest factor for the high number of driving deaths is the lack of public transport. If you can't get a bus or train then you'll be forced to drive more often, and people will be more likely to drive after drinking.
in this whole vid specifically about comparatively low life expectancy in US not a single point and single second was dedicated to actual explanation or to address the actual titular issue.
theres been even shown comparison that like 20 yrs or so ago US and UK had almost identical life expectancy but since then they diverged significantly but then whole vid was dedicated to word to word reiterating series of graphs and stats and reading excerpts from news articles already shown on screen- like US had higher gun crime rates, higher road death stats, etc etc before, yet the average been still the same for US and UK, now there 2, 3, sometimes more years difference.
why? thats the title of vid- why? and in the whole vid not a single just attempt at responding it or addressing it, just more stats merely describing current difference.
thats the definition of clickbait, like whats even point of this vid that is all basically just text- to- speech conversion of few newspaper articles without single one original conclusion made by the creators to answer the why question they themselves put in the title?
_and his nukes are plentiful_ I have never laughed at one of your videos 😂
Healthcare qualityis too costly in USA. Plus public education in the USA been tanking for long time
I can hear Adam Something fuming about the cars.
"The US has a relaxed approach to gun ownership"
Understatement of the century?
Getting shot in school doesn’t help
Not even close to common enough to make a difference
@@chickenfishhybrid44 lol yeah these Europeans are extreme with their assumptions. It’s kinda sad.
@@GotJay713 It's not just school shootings, the US has the most gun related deaths in the entire world. If you want to shoot up a school, hospital, church or that rival gang member who is stealing the competition or to settle some personal grudge it's shockingly easy to obtain a gun legally and this is not even mentioning all the deaths related to police shooting.
@@chickenfishhybrid44 Yeah there's only been more than one mass shooting a day this year, really uncommon.
Take a shot every time he says "life expectancy" - instant death
It would be statistically great to show differences between UK and US in age, sex, social group (income) and geographical area. Drugs, violence and reckless driving are interconnected. Low life expectancy could also be caused by eating junk food, having low access to health care, as many people have here said.
Also pollution is one potential explanation, geographical distribution would tell, is it. And there are very important mental factors, like stress and depression. These all are potential causes. But like I know about so called happiness here in Finland, cause and effect are not as simple as is often thought. High or low quality of life is a personal matter, and the most important thing people should keep in democracy is that they are able to make choices and are responsible for them.
A better video would have been "Why is British life expectancy so low?" comparing it to that of Japan, which is 84.62 years as of 2020 according to the World Bank.
Japan can probably be at least partly explained by having infrastructure that promotes walking and cycling passively giving everyone more exercise, annual tests that grade physical health and allow lifestyle problems to be caught earlier, and various dietary factors. Japan is just very ahead of the curve in a lot of ways, even more so now as its drinking culture is slowly diminishing
@@greg_mcaand Australia which life expectancy is less than Japan but only by slightly
UK is the European nation and advanced economy in the region with the lowest life expectancy so it is fair control in the comparison since they share alot of similarities.
@@eddapultstab2078 They also "share" a big difference. USA = huge mass of land organised as a federal republic, huge disparities in lifestyles across the nation. Nothing like the UK which is unitary and much more monolithic, country-level analyses of the USA generally do a great job of missing any point that is to be made. There is nothing in common between the Pacific coastal states and the southern ones, for example. Life expectancy for California, Oregon and Washington is around 79-80, in Alabama or Mississippi that falls to 75.
Kinda hilarious that you didn't even mention the elephant in the room, that US healthcare is simply the worst in the western world 😂
It's important to note that the counterfactuals have to be applied not only to the USA, but also to the other countries it's being compared to. Based on the fact that the "England & Wales" line does actually move, I guess it must be being applied to both, as is correct.
I remember having a debate in class about this. My teacher said that if healthcare was free, then the quality would be lower. But in America, not only is healthcare expensive but the quality is getting lower.
This terrifies me, because I'm from the UK and I know that with 15 years of an ultra-right-wing government that has been insidiously underfunding our universal healthcare system, under the line of inflation every year has now led to the NHS, collapsing and waiting lists and outcomes have regressed particularly badly in the last 2 years..This means that they are trying to force a privatised insurance-based healthcare system on the public, as the most wealthy start to jump onto insurance when they finally decide that the NHS doesn't meet their standards.
Once enough people have jumped the current Tories will simply say that the evidence of people's deccisions shows that the NHS doesn't work, when in fact it's been deliberately sabotaged,, when it's a perfectly and easily. Fundable system to maintain high quality outcomes and waiting times.This is pure evil from our politicaal elite to gett profits to the richest They will provide services and you are going to see our life expectancy regressed, just like the US over the coming years
But once the counter-factuals are taken into account what explains the subsequent 2 year life expectancy gap? Healthcare?
i would imagine the USAs high number of deaths in childbirth and infant mortality probably count quite a lot towards that in particular
@@WhichDoctor1 nah, this probably has to do with unhealthy lifestyle and abysmal attention to mental health. I can bet many millennials and Gen Zs are rather apathetic and went emo for the rest of their life. Although as much as I want to bring spiritual matters in this topic, I don't think it'll matter to most of you anyway
Look it's stressful to live in US with everyone trying to take every bit of flesh Thay can. I mean my rent has gone up 150%in 10 years
These numbers really do not mean much as the numbers are in the high 70’s and many people in America live into their 80’s or 90’s. The major issue in America when it comes to health is eating habits and how the food is made. There are plenty of organic options, but it is more expensive and it is too difficult to eat right all the time especially when going to restaurants when taste is what matters. This all contributes to most Americans being overweight.
Because Mississippi and Alabama bring all our stats down. States like Hawaii is 82, California is 81 and New York is 81.
Yeah, generally states in northeast and west have life expectancies more similar to that of Europe but states in the south and Midwest have significantly lower
Its something called fast food.
@@elfrjznot a good take my friend. Every country has fast food why you mentioning brunei?. So what if brunei is sharia compliant? What does that have to do with life expectancy. You sound like a racist
@Zaydan Alfariz "has" McDonald's doesn't cut it. Americans literally eat lunch and dinner at chain fast foods EVERY DAY, it's not something anyone else in the world does in such substantial quantities. Maybe except Canada and Mexico..
@@anonymousbloke1 While it is true that Americans eat the most fast food per capita, the countries that come right after them are the UK, France and Sweden.
@@krokuke What counts as fast food in those countries isn't the same fast food they have in the US. The French and Swedes have healthy things served as fast food quite often, meanwhile every US chain fast food offers free refills on every drink imaginable and refries stuff on peanut oil.. overall I'd just say those other countries are a lot more hygienic and aren't as averse to vegetable consumption
UK tho is quite fucked
We’re here for a good time not a long time 🤷♂️
Yeaaahhhhh I don’t feel blessed!
Are you having a good time though?
@@osheridan Maybe not, but most of the elderly living beyond 85 years old are not having a good time either. This policy of extending people's lifetimes while their health and autonomy keep worsening is madness.
@@pritapp788 But that's not a policy that exists, though
Before the Healthcare, let's talk about preventative measures- food quality! Pesticides, hormones, antibiotics in meat. Overfarmed veggies with less vitamins and minerals. Overly processed food and high sugar
It’s a death of despair! Jeff bezos needs that second yacht!
Guns, Food, Cars, Drugs and no healthcare for poor people.
Poor people are the ones that qualify for free Healthcare in the US. Where do you people get this stuff? Medicaid gives free Healthcare to 100 million Americans approximately.
I would also add the wealth gap because cheap food is junk
For comparison, the average US income is around double that of average UK income. American's earn slightly more than the Swiss and there's 330 million of them compared to just 8 million Swiss.
Here's a freaky statistic: The UK has a population of over 68 million people meanwhile out of the 330+ million folks in the USA, over 120 million of them are clinically obese (36.2% of the population) or in layman's terms for every person living in the UK theres roughly 1.9 fat Americans living in the USA.
For reference the UK has a obesity rate of 27.8% and is the 2nd fattest nation in Europe (behind Malta, UK is 3rd if you wanna include Turkey) and is 35th globally while the USA is the fattest nation in NA and is 12th globally. Funny enough depending on the individual state the USA can have a obesity rate as low as 23% (comparable to Russia or Poland) or as high as 38.1% (above 11th place globally Kuwait), it's pretty intresting yet kinda terrifying too.
@@lynxfresh5214 I don't disagree that Americans are, in general, extremely unhealthy. Americans have some of the highest healthcare spending in the world and they get very mediocre results out of it. I think the stat was that Americans spent four times as much per person on healthcare as Italians and Italians still had higher life expectancy than them,. That said, US salaries are extremely high and higher than anywhere other than the likes of Switzerland.
Eh, average (mean) income is a bit bullshit when you have ultra-billionaires skewing the results. Median is much better in cases like this. And a quick google shows that the median US full-time individual income is ~$55,000, whereas in the UK it's ~31,500 pounds (~$40,000 USD) - this is 2020 data. Still lower, but certainly not double.
For comparison, median swiss income seems to be about $87,000 USD, much higher than both countries.
Obesity, guns, lack of social healthcare, substance abuse, stress take your pick...
Unaffordable healthcare, legalisation of absurdly toxic chemicals for pesticides and food, increased poverty, car dependence,… I can keep going
Move to AUSTRALIA my American brothers and sisters 🤣🤣 life’s amazing 👍
Are you sure? The average salary for my profession is lower than it is in the U.S. and the cost of living may be more expensive.
You forget that Americans living abroad still getting taxed by Uncle Sam, making their lives harder than Americans living in the US. Double taxation exists.
@@aycc-nbh7289 Well I am married to an American woman we relocated from Seattle 7 years ago and in our experience have absolutely no complaints.
@@UnKynneyValley And no you are completely wrong we pay as individuals separately each financial year and only pay tax at the Australian tax rate regardless of our earnings.
@@aycc-nbh7289 You’ll enjoy living longer without the stresses, guns and idiots.
Watching this while eating McDonald’s lol
I feel you heartbeat to the beat of the drum. Oh what a shame that you came here with someone...
No mention of obeisity and lack of universal health care. These have historically been the reasons for lagging
China and Cuba have higher life expectancies.
China's stats are likely fake, they have a huge smoking culture, everyone smokes there, very polluted air and water, China's healthcare is not truly universal nor free. Communist countries often lie about their stats, which puts Cuba in doubt as well, they have problems with tropical diseases still, most die in their 40s in Cuba.
@Zaydan Alfariz and yet everyone still wants to move to the US, not to Albania or Brunei or Cuba or china
America is now surpassed by Albania, a poor country, Brunei, a sharia country and China, it's biggest rival. So much for a downturn
Surpassed in what? What kind of cherry picking is that?
Sharia country china? You can’t be serious
@@soundscape26 Life expectancy, the thing the video is talking about 😑
@@multilangcoder8723 I can get the comparison with China but damn, why Brunei? Completely different countries in almost everything.
What is omitted at discussing the factors around 4:20 is the most right panel set of graphs excluding cardio-metabolic diseases. For women it pars out the differences between uk and us completely and for men it is also the largest factor. Could diet, obesity levels and healthcare differences be the determining factor ? Despite uk does have its fair share of overweight people ?
Why wasn't the word "healthcare" mentioned in this video?
I live in the U.S. and my state life expectancy is 80.4 years, while my town is 84.0 years.
It seems to completely depend on where in the U.S. you live. The average is likely being brought down drastically by southern ideology states. You know, the ones that are currently banning books like it's the seventeenth century.
Low life expectancy as morbid as it sounds is actually a really good thing. Old population is not only useless but a burden on the country. Japan is stuck in limbo, because all of it's earnings go to elderly care. This increases the tax burden on the youth, which overworks them and thus less births. A viscous cycle with no end in sight due to the elderly living a long ultra healthy lifestyle. China and even more so Europe are rapidly approaching that same level. Ironically Russia's Alcoholism and America's unhealthy diet and drug use are a morbid blessing in disguise.
2-3 year lower life expectancy doesn't really scare or worry me at all frankly. Not to mention it wouldn't surprise me if it's back up again in like 5 years.
US life expectancy is diminished by other factors not presented here, one of which is population density. Off the coasts and outside of major cities there are few people per square mile, which means rural Americans (46m people) generally lack quick access to a hospital. Another is the geographically uneven nature of healthcare services. University hospitals are exclusively found in big cities. Rural hospitals are small, understaffed, and not full-service. This increases the negative effects of other issues, such as poor diet, diabetes, and cardiac disease.
Unlike other developed nations, America does not have a government-run universal access program, which means: 1) some low-income people can only get care in clinics and ERs; 2) no national mandate for rural healthcare. Countries with superior longevity generally have a national universal access program supplemented by private insurance. America has a patchwork of government-backed programs & laws (VA, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA) but relies on private insurance & hospitals to deliver care. America's 17 million military veterans receive care at government-owned VA hospitals.
Unlike other developed nations, America's healthcare costs aren't constrained by government intervention. As a result, physicians are over-paid compared to the rest of the developed world, drugs cost on average 4x more than across the rest of the world, medical devices are outrageously priced, and individual hospitals are free to grossly over-charge for services provided. The healthcare "free market" is a myth. Large hospital networks, many of which are owned by the RCC, have many local monopolies. There is no true competition in America's hospital industry.
People in other developed nations don't lose their life savings and even their homes due to medical expenses. America sees 530,000 annual medical bankruptcies. Every decade sees 4% of America's 131 million households lose everything because of medical bankruptcy. A 2009 study claimed that 62% of all personal bankruptcies are medically related. Roughly half of all medical bankruptcy filers have no other debt on their credit reports.
The human cost extends past losing homes and life savings. Americans delay or avoid medical treatment because of costs, thus shortening national longevity. The problem falls heaviest on older people.
National healthcare costs are approximately 9% of GDP across the developed world, excluding America, where healthcare accounts for 16% of GDP. America's national longevity is about the same as Ecuador's, a developing, middle-income country where 30% of the population is poor and national healthcare spending is 8% of GDP. Ecuador has a two-tier healthcare system that provides universal access, like Ireland, Singapore, Canada, Israel, the UK, Taiwan, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and Switzerland.
America does have free universal healthcare for the poor, it’s called Medicaid. It’s an extremely generous program. The elderly have Medicare. The rest has insurance. 92% of the population is covered.
two high-profile articles that claim that medical events cause approximately 60% of all bankruptcies in the United States. In these studies, people who had gone bankrupt were asked whether they’d experienced health-related financial stress such as substantial medical bills or income loss due to illness. People were also asked whether they went bankrupt due to medical bills. People who reported any of these events were described as having experienced a medical bankruptcy.
according to a 2014 report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, about 20% of Americans have substantial medical debt yet in a given year less than 1% of Americans file for personal bankruptcy suggests that this assumption is problematic. Clearly, many people face medical debt but do not go bankrupt.
Even after correcting for overly broad definitions of “medical” expenses, the existing, widely cited evidence on medical bankruptcy is built on the fallacy that when two things occur together there is necessarily a causal relationship between them.
@@commonomics
"America does have free universal healthcare for the poor, it's called medicare."
It's not universal if it's only for the elderly.
@@mariatheresavonhabsburg Medicaid is universal or free hc for the poor and Medicare is universal or free hc for the elderly.
Australia also has a low population density and a significant proportion of the population living in rural areas, yet it has a much higher life expectancy than either the UK or the USA, at 81.2 yrs for males and 85.3 yrs for females.
Why you didn't mention the elephant in the room? Private healthcare, too expensive for many to use. Many don't see a doctor until it's too late, or can't afford the treatments anyway.
Fun Fact: Did u know that if u hoogle up an Americans life acceptance, u will see Cuba with a slightly higher life acceptance than the U.S
Take that back, google Search Cuba life expectancy, then u will see plus I am aware I spell expectancy wrong...
@@mayiseeyourneckplsjknotrel7107 you realize you can edit your comments to fix typos?
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 o_o
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 I-I knew that...
@@mayiseeyourneckplsjknotrel7107 I did, it's about 0.3% higher that the US.
Libertarianism
I think it boils down to lack of training (bedside manners etc.), lack of funding, and interestingly enough state control over healthcare implementation (50+ different systems leads to a crap system overall).
died at school ,with aged under 16,it is too young for USA
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Americans are here for a good time, not a long time. We’d rather spend money on important things, instead of having our money taken in the prime of our life by taxes, just to live 2 years longer and die anyways
Well said 👏
Not really a good time when you get into a serious injury and have limited healthcare opportunities.
A perfect example why Americans die Young
@@quadeong7453 America has the best healthcare in the world, or you could choose to save your money and just fix it yourself. Your opportunities are there, should the government try to make healthcare as affordable as possible for those that want it? Ofcourse. But it should do that by putting price caps on medicines, like insulin that cost $15 to make but are sold for over $100. Not by forcing people to give them money for “free” healthcare, when they may or may not use it.
@@quadeong7453 just like social security, which is a Ponzi scheme scam. In theory every person pays for their own retirement, except people can already do that through a retirement fund. All you’re doing is taking money from people and they aren’t even saving it for social sexurity payouts, they’re spending it, which is why now when our population is falling, we are running out of money in social security.
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Notice how it leveled-off in 2008. And then dropped in 2017?
Massive gov debt and stagnated economy. Borrowing time by printing money isn't solving problem, it's just problem needed to be solved by the next cabinet lmao.
I think the lady at 6:30 is filling up a lip filler syringe, good video editing :D