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The mayor says that it’s because the nearest hospital is 45 km away, but a full 16% of the US population, or roughly 55 million people, live further than that from a hospital (https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/hospital-deserts/index.html).
US healthcare really needs to stop looking like a third-world country.
Well, that’d require us to stop being a 3rd world country. GDP aside more than 1 in 10 Americans live in relative poverty.
There are few effective social programs and a very authoritarian power structure even before the incoming clusterfuck.
Italy’s population density is twice that of the US.
Rural hospitals have been getting shut down for years now due to it not being a great money maker, it’s the same reason rural Americans wouldn’t have to their door mail access without it being included in the Constitution.
Even without taking population density into account, access is only going to get worse when hospitals keep shuttering.
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Honestly “modern healthcare” was pushing it for a lot of them even when they were open, due to decades of cuts and lack of investment. The (now closed) hospital that was in the rural community I grew up in had a reputation for being a place you went if you had no other choice, or it was a very minor emergency even they couldn’t fuck up. My parents floored it to the nearest city (40 minute drive) every time my mom went into labor, despite the local hospital being maybe 15 minutes away max if you drove the speed limit.
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Their wording is confusing, but I think what you first understood is correct. Over 30 million Americans don’t even live within an hour of a trauma care department (and an hour is further away): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28069138/
The US is absolutely not a third world country. Now, a developing country . . .
“This is not just a provocation, the ordinance is a cry for help, a way to shine a spotlight on an unacceptable situation,” Mr Torchia told local news outlet Corriere della Calabria.
Do even English people say “I’ve fallen sick”? Sounds so dramatic.
“I’ve fallen ill” is a common expression in the UK. “Fallen sick” would be a little unusual
…and I can’t get up!
Call an ambulance!
In this economy???
Life alert is a life saver! I wouldn’t be here without life alert.
But not for me!
Finally
Down with the sickness.
Some cultures even use the phrase “fallen pregnant”.
People taking vitamins and vaccines when you can just ban illness! Novel approach.
Vitamins don’t do anything for health unless you are vitamin deficient.
Sure they do. They harm your health if used in excess.
Unless you’re going absolutely insane with them you’ll typically just pee them out.
Not vitamin D.
The D is stored in the balls
“Take two spoonfuls 🤌 of Extra Virgin Olive Oil 👋 with your daily lasagna. 👐You’ll be right as rain.👌”
Many great doctors, the best healers, say to inject Tide Pods, many have said it, it’s true, it washes and cleans the blood right up.
I’m not that surprised. If you live in a rural area, you aren’t going to get the services of a city. Hospital care is part of that.
