Steve Randy Waldman of interfluidity called this thread: Thread, counterintuitive and disheartening.
It could for a number of reasons be that the current western healthcare (beyond the basics that you do not need insurance to get) is not good for those at the low end of diligence, IQ, conscientiousness scales.
Here are some possible reasons why:
If true it could explain:
Here are some possible reasons why:
- MD’s often do not explain enough and nobody follows up.
- Protocols are sometimes too complicated and require too much attention.
- Opiates are too tempting.
- etc.
If true it could explain:
- Why the more educated (a good measure of the above traits) are getting healthier faster than the less educated.
- Why the health/income gradient is greater in Canada than the US. Everyone gets access to healthcare in canada.
- Why Medicaid does not seem to improve health.
- Why the PPACA (Obamacare) looks like it did not save lives.
- Why some groups with less access to healthcare have greater life expectancy.
- The states leading the pack in overdoses all expanded the program.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449171/medicaid-opioid-problem-has-it-made-epidemic-worse
And BTW on the opioid epidemic being deaths of despair:
New Hampshire has the second highest opiate death rate in the US. Very good economy in NH. These epidemics come and go look more like viruses than anything caused by despair.
So why would West Virginia be the leader in overdose deaths, because it has been loosing its best and brightest for a long time leaving a higher percent on the lower end of diligence, IQ, conscientiousness scales, the most susceptible.
Related links:
Ironic Health Links
Hanson on Health
Wealth and retirement might not be good for everyone!
New Hampshire has the second highest opiate death rate in the US. Very good economy in NH. These epidemics come and go look more like viruses than anything caused by despair.
So why would West Virginia be the leader in overdose deaths, because it has been loosing its best and brightest for a long time leaving a higher percent on the lower end of diligence, IQ, conscientiousness scales, the most susceptible.
Related links:
The Amish and the marginal value of health care
The Amish and the marginal value of health care
Ironic Health Links
Hanson on Health
Wealth and retirement might not be good for everyone!
My null hypothesis says that spending more inflation adjusted on schooling than was spent in 1960 has no positive effect on education. (that's about 1/3 of what is spent today.)
Also that only a tiny fraction (perhaps .1%) of schools are good or bad schools. The rest are judged good or bad have good and bad students. And so parents should relax should only try to avoid the worst .1% of schools and not pay more for a home in a “good” school district.
Also my mother has told me that her parents went to school for just 1 year, yet they where educated. They were not superstitious as many where in their era. They could read and write and do arithmetic. They read books. They owned and ran a barber shop. they speculated in real-estate (but lost most but not all of it in the great depression) and sent their son to Brown University.
School is not only place people learn.
Perhaps 3 years of formal schooling would be enough for most people. Never the less in the modern world we would need something for them to do so maybe keeping most in school to 16 is a good idea, not so much for education but to keep them out of trouble.
The Amish drop out early and do OK.
For a modern example, the guy who invented this car claims to have dropped out of school at 14 years old.
Also, if we cannot teach children more and it looks like we cannot, we should focus on teaching the most valuable stuff.