remember when there used to be all these articles about how people in europe live longer than americans because they drink red wine and eat more olive oil or bullshit like that? turns out it was universal healthcare the whole time

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[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Source? I mean it sounds plausible, but universial healthcare is hardly the only difference between USA and e.g. Italy. Red wine and olive oil are probably not the main culprit, but lifestyle generally plays a very large role. e.g. compare Italy's obesity rate with that of the USA, or even most other european countries. The wealthier european countries (including Italy) also have way fewer hours worked per capita than the USA.

[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

If you don't have to work 40+ hours a week at a job to make sure they don't fire you to and lose your health insurance and possibly bankrupt your family then you get to have a better work-life balance.

[–] JayObey711@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea healthcare is not just going to the doctor for free. It starts in school and includes a healthy work life balance and and an environment you feel well in.

[–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Or getting your doctor say (tho way more nicely): "Some of your conditions may be caused by being fat. Please go to this public-healthcare-funded dietary assistant that will create an individual dietary plan for you".

Lost 20kg in the months following it and stayed at the lower end of the "slightly overweight" area since 2 years.

I'm in no way a healthy person, but I would be way less healthy without public Healthcare. And probably wouldn't be a net positive to the economy as well.

And in an economic view: If I would not have received Healthcare when I was broke and homeless I wouldn't have been able to pay more in taxes and back into public healthcare in the last two years than I have ever received in my life before.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I thought they blew this all up by just doing a simple correlation of the amount of time spent walking vs health. So instead of walking to your driveway, you walk to the bus stop... etc.