“It is shocking and unacceptable that in the United States in 2025, poverty steals almost a decade of older Americans’ lives,” said Ramsey Alwin, president of the National Council on Aging.
Surprised it’s that low.
It’s only because our medical system has bad outcomes all around. Our rich have poorer outcomes than the middle class in most other western nations with socialized healthcare.
It’s almost like if you create a system based on wealth you will get doctors that churn through patients as quickly as possible and don’t actually try and spend the time to diagnose issues. Even if they find the issue you are at the mercy of health insurance to lower the bill from 2 years of income down to 6 months.
This whole system is a scam, and there are literally no incentives to actually cure people since healthy people generate no income for the healthcare industry.
Boomers somehow immune to data… More at 11.
