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nsacpi said:
Georgia is one of the few red (now purple) states to rank high in terms of increasing life expectancy. I give the health care programs there a lot of credit. Someone has been doing something right in Georgia. Places like Idaho and Montana haven't done so well by their residents. At least by the most basic of metrics: how long people live.
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Because Georgia is becoming industrialized. Industrialization brings better hospitals and medical care. I love rural life but it does have its limitations.
 
Garmel said:
Because Georgia is becoming industrialized. Industrialization brings better hospitals and medical care. I love rural life but it does have its limitations.
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Yeah. I would say rising standards of living generally is a big factor. The thing is standards of living are rising in most states. Maybe a bit more in Georgia. Georgia's performance in raising life expectancy just stands out as exceptional. Probably one of those things where a lot of different factors made a contribution.

It is strange how things have diverged across the country. Forty years ago, New York and Oklahoma had about the same life expectancy. Now New Yorkers can expect to live 5 years longer.
 
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sturg33 said:
There is data that show leftists have mental illness at a catastrophically higher rate.

jaw posted it in tlhlim thread
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i would be careful about that

in some places and social circles there is just less stigma about seeking help for mental health issues

similarly if you look at surveys of sexual orientation some areas appear to have fewer gays...but then when you look at google searches for things like gay porn the difference goes away
 
nsacpi said:
i would be careful about that

in some places and social circles there is just less stigma about seeking help for mental health issues

similarly if you look at surveys of sexual orientation some areas appear to have fewer gays...but then when you look at google searches for things like gay porn the difference goes away
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In some social circles people are just mentally weak.
 
nsacpi said:
Yeah. I would say rising standards of living generally is a big factor. The thing is standards of living are rising in most states. Maybe a bit more in Georgia. Georgia's performance in raising life expectancy just stands out as exceptional. Probably one of those things where a lot of different factors made a contribution.

It is strange how things have diverged across the country. Forty years ago, New York and Oklahoma had about the same life expectancy. Now New Yorkers can expect to live 5 years longer.
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Medical technology has boomed in the last 40 years and those in the urban areas have better access to it. A place like Montana with just 1M people who are spread out rurally just isn't going to have the facilities. It's that simple.

If you live close to a hospital your chances are better for survival. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464671/

Thankfully, my dad lives close to a hospital that has made the top 100 in the nation a few times. I don't think he would have been able to get an emergency quadruple bypass in time if we were still living in the sticks of Missouri unless he was able to survive being coptered to St. Louis.
 
Garmel said:
Medical technology has boomed in the last 40 years and those in the urban areas have better access to it. A place like Montana with just 1M people who are spread out rurally just isn't going to have the facilities. It's that simple.

If you live close to a hospital your chances are better for survival. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464671/

Thankfully, my dad lives close to a hospital that has made the top 100 in the nation a few times. I don't think he would have been able to get an emergency quadruple bypass in time if we were still living in the sticks of Missouri unless he was able to survive being coptered to St. Louis.
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There may be something to that. It seems the bigger improvements have come in densely populated places.
 
Garmel said:
In fact here is an article about the hospital where I was born in Kennett, Missouri although it wasn't called Twin Rivers back then in the 60s. Rural healthcare just isn't good. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...edical-center-healthcare-crisis-america-dying
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Obama care Medicaid expansion was very popular in Montana despite it being a conservative state because it saved rural hospitals and gave them more funding.

It has largely been successful in Montana.

https://dailymontanan.com/2021/02/0...ion-in-montana-has-been-extremely-successful/
 
sturg33 said:
Your regular reminder that not a single person lost their job after the Afghanistan blunder
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the blunder you wanted right?

the blunder trump set up? the blunder he was too much of a coward to actually do when he said he would do it? the blunder of leaving knowing what could happen but wanted to get out of?
 
thethe said:
They do nothing but disparage middle America and to top it off they gleefully send them to die in their wars started by their lies.
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my favorite, well behind the fascists calling people stupid, is when he fake cares about the ordinary american
 
thethe said:
Impressive how Hungary and France could have elections in one day and count all the votes without issues.....
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i saw this stupid **** on twitter from the usual dog**** people

glad it was here too while i was traveling around lol
 
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