Some Red State/Blue State Indicia

[nsacpi]

It's something that's so hypocritical they can't possibly fail to see it. San Francisco doesn't want affordable housing.

This is true. San Francisco, Marin County, Berkeley don't want more growth. They are happy with a smaller population. And it is certainly elitist and not compatible with trying to help lower income people. There is a nascent anti-NIMBYism movement that has surfaced in recent years but I don't think it will have much of an impact.

[nsacpi]

Yes, states who were set up by people who think more like me than you. Hate to tell you but the more industrialized the south becomes it will eventually overcome the north in every vital category.

The odd thing is the gap in life expectancy has been growing not shrinking.

[nsacpi]

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...stract/2790238

Disparities in health across the 50 states are growing, a trend that began in the 1990s.4 For example, in 1990, life expectancy in New York was lower than in Oklahoma, but the trajectories separated sharply in the 1990s and, by 2016, New York ranked third in life expectancy, whereas Oklahoma ranked 45th.2 By 2019, mortality rates at ages 25 to 64 years differed by a factor of 216% between the states with the highest mortality rate (565.1 per 100 000) and the lowest rate (261.9 per 100 000), up from 188% in 1999. The widening gap cannot be explained by changes in the racial and ethnic composition of states, because the same trend occurred within racial and ethnic groups. For example, among non-Hispanic White individuals, mortality rates at ages 25 to 64 years differed by a factor of 228% between the states with the highest mortality rate (571.7 per 100 000) and the lowest rate (250.2 per 100 000), up from 166% in 1999.5

Although the divergence in state health trajectories might reflect changes in demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, a more likely potential explanation is the growing polarization of public policies across states. States assumed increasing powers decades ago, when the Reagan administration in the 1980s and the US Congress in the 1990s promoted devolution, a policy aimed at shifting authorities and resources (eg, block grants) to the states.6

States with different political priorities and economic circumstances made diverse policy choices, widening the gap across the states in education, wages, taxes, social programs, corporate profits, wealth inequality, and infrastructure. Health outcomes changed as states took different approaches to Medicaid, workplace and product safety, the environment, tobacco control, food labeling, gun ownership, and needle exchange programs. These policies had predictable consequences. For example, states that raised cigarette taxes experienced fewer tobacco-related illnesses. Injury deaths increased in states that relaxed speed limits and motorcycle helmet laws.

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[nsacpi]

States with the largest increases in life expectancy the last 40 years: NY (7.5 years), CA (6.6), NJ (6.6), MA (5.7), IL (5.7), MD (5.7), GA (5.4), CT (5.4) DE (5.3), NV (5.3), VT (5.3)

States with the smallest increases: WV (1.7), OK (2.1), KY (2.5), MS (2.8), AR (2.8), AL (2.9), NM (2.9), ND (3.0), KS (3.1), IA (3.3)

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[57Brave]

wasn't it ~10 years~ ago that 20M citizens became first time eligible for health insurance ?

if memory serves, sturg health insurance rose 79%. Curiously, the exact number Fox was peddling

so there is infrastructure upgrades, and individual health care availability.
Curious the American death toll in Afghanistan these past few months

[sturg33]

But question for the leftists... Do you believe that energy blackouts is indicative of failed government?

Darn thought I might get answer here

[Jaw]

The issue that many of us have with Obamacare is that before it was enacted, most Americans had access to reasonably priced, high quality, health insurance. Now no one does.

[Tapate50]

The issue that many of us have with Obamacare is that before it was enacted, most Americans had access to reasonably priced, high quality, health insurance. Now no one does.

It was always available, readily.

Anyone saying otherwise is willfully ignorant

[zitothebrave]

The issue that many of us have with Obamacare is that before it was enacted, most Americans had access to reasonably priced, high quality, health insurance. Now no one does.

https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog...ore-obamacare/

[Jaw]

https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog...ore-obamacare/

I am surprised to read such a glowing review of a program that guarantees more health insurance subscribers by a health insurance website. Next please link me what Netflix thinks of streaming television providers.

I will go ahead and take a couple of the layups the article left open.

1.) 82% wanting some type of health reform does not = 82% wanting crappier and more expensive insurance.

2.) 5/6 of Americans having decent health insurance is superior to 6/7 of Americans having more expensive, crappier insurance.

3.) The program will decrease the deficit....at some point in the future when it uses less taxpayer money to buy votes. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA! Yes, yes, because we all know federal handouts are always being reduced! Hahahahaetc! Quick, quick, tell me the one about how my social security tax is "in a lock box" next, I love that one!

[zitothebrave]

Don't get me wrong, I hate Obamacare. It was a half assed solution to a huge problem. You dont' half ass things, you whole ass them.

But if you think back to late 2000s health care super happy, you're looking through rose colored glasses.

[Jaw]

Don't get me wrong, I hate Obamacare. It was a half assed solution to a huge problem. You dont' half ass things, you whole ass them.

But if you think back to late 2000s health care super happy, you're looking through rose colored glasses.

Sign me up tomorrow for a single payer system where there are no deductibles and no bills. But rigging the game the way they did for health insurance companies must have made the guys on the Board of some of those companies blush with embarrassment. I can tell you that the only people I've ever met who claim to have a better deal on health insurance post ACA are people I've met on the internet.

[57Brave]

I can't think of a single policy the left has enacted that has helped the people it claims to help over the long term

Was the question.
Not whether you agreed or it effected you.

It was enacted to provide coverage to those that couldn't afford coverage

Like it or not, it has done that.
The pandemic was proof

[Tapate50]

Lol Starbucks.

Maybe that will affect the life expectancy

[sturg33]

But question for the leftists... Do you believe that energy blackouts is indicative of failed government?

... Anyone?

[sturg33]

Was the question.
Not whether you agreed or it effected you.

It was enacted to provide coverage to those that couldn't afford coverage

Like it or not, it has done that.
The pandemic was proof

I will repeat... I can't think of a single policy leftists have enacted that has made things better for the people they claim to help

[Tapate50]

Has a red state prosecuted a bodega owner for defending himself from an attack from a man and woman ?

Asking for a friend

[sturg33]

Lol Starbucks.

Maybe that will affect the life expectancy

[thethe]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

What ****holes

[sturg33]

We don't hear much about refunding police anymore.

Every policy the left pushes causes destruction