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The market will for sure solve this (slrpnk.net)

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[–] sarge@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (12 children)

In Germany the adminstrative effort including documentation is at 50%.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's pretty disconcerting that we're the second worst after the US.

[–] sarge@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Sure. But the graphic is very much cherry picked. There is plenty of space between the US and Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

What surprises me is the high rank of Australia!

Infrastructure in Australia is unfavorable… like the US (thin emc network vs. helicopters in Germany that are super common, Germany is a dense country, everywhere hospitals… Australia a desert with some coast. Like US.)
Australians are basically US americans of the south (think food: originally british, cannot be healthy, no good car manufacturers, afraid of foreigners…)
Everything is trying to kill you in Australia!

What the heck are they doing?

But maybe the Germans can learn from the Australians something. Germany‘s System is such a inefficient mess… just the administrative effort to maintain dozens of public health care insurances… crazy!

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low

The life expectancy in the US is also dragged down by other factors. The US is a huge outlier in several other aspects:

Higher death rates from smoking, obesity, homicides, opioid overdoses, suicides, road accidents, and infant deaths, compared to other countries.
Additionally, deeper poverty, economic inequality.

It could just be that the US has way more vices per capita than other countries.

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