Summary:
Recent research has shown a decrease in life expectancy among Americans'. After looking back at the last century, it seems that smoking, obesity, traffic fatalities and homicide aren't the problem. As far as smoking is concerned, there was little difference compared to other countries. Obesity rates in the US tend to be higher, but the rates haven't increased, as they did dramatically between 1975-2005. With traffic fatalities and homicide, although they are accounted for, for their share of deaths, they can not be the culprit for the number of deaths in the last 15 years. Scientists have concluded that the US' health care system is the blame.
Opinion:
After reading this article it was a surprise to me that it is our health care system that is the problem. Compared to other countries, looking at our spending on health care, we should be at the top. However the problem is here in the US, people often seek out specialists for specific care. This is at a higher expense. However, it is not that our specialists are doing a poor job, but it's that people go to the specialists for their specific problems, and often times are missing, and overlooking the other problems. Hopefully we can find a solution to this problem by seeing more primary physicians that can see the bigger picture of ploblems.
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