Rising death rate of white working class rooted in poor healthcare and lack of job pr

[KingOrfeo]

Rising death rate of white working class rooted in poor healthcare and lack of job prospects: report.

A new report from the Brookings Institution by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton finds that the death rate among midlife, white working class Americans has steadily risen over the last two decades. Their findings noted the rising death rate could be connected to poor job prospects, familial issues, isolation, addiction, and obesity.

According to the Washington Post, an individual’s education level plays a significant role in mental and physical health, noting that those with college degrees reported better general well-being than those without.

“Ultimately, we see our story as about the collapse of the white, high-school-educated working class after its heyday in the early 1970s, and the pathologies that accompany that decline,” the report concludes.

“You used to be able to get a really good job with a high school diploma,” said Case. “A job with on-the-job training, a job with benefits. You could expect to move up.”

Middle-aged, less-educated white Americans in poor health is a phenomena on the rise — as is physical pain as a symptom — as the GOP has been putting the healthcare of many Americans at risk with its proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

Similarly, the report’s findings are not symptomatic of short-term economic cycles, but rather a “long-term disintegration of job prospects.” The economists also connected obesity, and drug and alcohol addiction to stress and physical pain.

In that regard, Harvard economics professor David Cutler said the GOP’s push to repeal Obamacare is like “bleeding a sick patient.” In his own words, “Treat the fever by causing an even bigger fever.”

And they voted for Trump because he promised them health care and jobs.

 

[RobDownSouth]

And they voted for Trump because he promised them health care and jobs.

Actions have consequences.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

People who bought the ACA plan saw their rates skyrocket by 30% (or right around there, too lazy too look) the week before the election. Of course they voted for the other guy. Why are we all pretending the massive increase didn't happen?

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

No comment from KingOrfeo?

 

[BotanyBoy]

And they voted for Trump because he promised them health care and jobs.

LOL....suddenly KO gives a fuck about the white working class?

LMFAO!!

Actions have consequences.

^^ most (D)'s attitude toward the white working class, and that's being nice.

Why are we all pretending the massive increase didn't happen?

Because (D) is all that matters, fuck the white working class, ACA is the greatest thing EVER!!

 

[KingOrfeo]

People who bought the ACA plan saw their rates skyrocket by 30% (or right around there, too lazy too look) the week before the election. Of course they voted for the other guy. Why are we all pretending the massive increase didn't happen?

Cite?

 

[BotanyBoy]

Cite?

^^^ He still thinks ACA reduced cost for everyone and everyone got to keep their doctors, because Obama said so!!

 

[KingOrfeo]

^^^ He still thinks ACA reduced cost for everyone and everyone got to keep their doctors, because Obama said so!!

No, but I think it provided coverage to millions previously uninsured and eliminated pre-existing conditions exclusions, which was the point.

 

[BotanyBoy]

No, but I think it provided coverage to millions previously uninsured and eliminated pre-existing conditions exclusions, which was the point.

At an absurd price, because (D) greed, which defeated the point.

The point being there isn't any reason we couldn't get EVERYONE covered for significantly less than we were already paying.

Except greedy ass gubbmint of course....



ACA is like a 1992 honda civic with only 2 cylinders firing and a back seat soaked in cat piss.......with an 800 BILLION dollar price tag.

What deal hua?

 

[KingOrfeo]

At an absurd price, because (D) greed, which defeated the point.

What greed? D's ain't makin' money off this and neither is the government.

 

[BotanyBoy]

What greed? D's ain't makin' money off this and neither is the government.

LMFAO!! You're a beyond hopeless and possibly the most willfully ignorant partisan hack in GB history.

Good luck pushing your fantasies where (D)'s are altruistic angels who work tirelessly for the working class and poor.

 

[KingOrfeo]

LMFAO!! You're a beyond hopeless and possibly the most willfully ignorant partisan hack in GB history.

Good luck pushing your fantasies where (D)'s are altruistic angels who work tirelessly for the working class and poor.

No D in Congress is getting any kind of kickback related to the ACA -- and, since the "public office" was off the table after the first month, I think, neither is the USG.

 

[BotanyBoy]

No D in Congress is getting any kind of kickback related to the ACA

Except their multi billion dollar campaigns and 6 figure "speaking" fees to come by and say hi to all the Pfizer execs for a brunch.

Get fucking real KO.......(R)'s aren't the only politicians running multi billion dollar campaigns and winding up worth millions after just a couple years in D.C. and MEGA millions after a career there.

Yea....(D)'s are doing that shit too.

You're a willfully ignorant hack to say otherwise.

If they were even remotely close to as 'progressive' as you like to pretend, they would have done HC reform right the first time instead of fucking the working class up the ass dry. They would be hero's instead of sub-trump scum.

 

[Rightguide]

Cite?

KO only asks for a "Cite" when he wants to waste a poster's time with things he knows full well exists as stated. #disgracefuldissembler

 

[KingOrfeo]

KO only asks for a "Cite" when he wants to waste a poster's time with things he knows full well exists as stated. #disgracefuldissembler

You just get stupider and more dishonest every day, don't you?

Look, the process I am describing has very obvious value. It is what makes a debate informative and useful, and keeps it from degenerating into a meaningless series of unsupported and therefore pointless counter-assertions. If you assert X and I simply contradict you, well, what is the point of that? Contradiction is not disproof. But if I demand a cite and you provide one, then I am informed, and anyone else following the debate is informed, of the content of your cite (regardless of whether it actually supports your assertion). If I demand a cite and you reply with a good logical argument as to why none is necessary, we all are informed of the content of your argument. If I demand a cite and you simply fail to provide one, we all are informed that you're just talking out your ass. In any event, we all learn something. Is that not far preferable to an endless string of no-you're-the-poopyheads?

 

[Rightguide]

You just get stupider and more dishonest every day, don't you?

LOL, you should take a look in the mirror.

 

[KingOrfeo]

LOL, you should take a look in the mirror.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/rubber_and_glue.png