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‘Death By Zip Code’: Health Disparities Between Rich And Poor Areas Are Only Getting Worse

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July 12, 2013 "Information Clearing House - On Tuesday, a new report revealed that Americans are in “mediocre” health, and the United States has significantly worse health outcomes than other wealthy countries. But in addition to the gap between the U.S. and other developed nations, the new research also documented the widening gulf between different areas of this country — and the increasing reality that health is inextricably linked with wealth.

As NBC News points out, some of the study’s data points to a growing divide between wealthier and poorer areas of the United States. While the people who live in rich areas like San Francisco or the Washington, DC suburbs are likely to be just as healthy as people living in Switzerland or Japan, that’s not true for Americans in more impoverished areas. The health of the people living in Appalachia or the rural South is more comparable to the residents of Algeria or Bangladesh.
The disparities become particularly evident when examining life expectancy across different regions. For example, the men living in Fairfax County, VA — where the median household income is over $100,000 — have a life expectancy of about 82 years. But in neighboring McDowell County, WV, where the median household income is just $39,500, men have a life expectancy of just 63.9 years. That’s the lowest in the country, and similar to the average number of years that people in poorer developing nations live.

NBC’s Chief Medical Editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, said the new report presents “a scathing look at demographics” and called the findings “almost death by zip code.”
Snyderman’s point is illustrated by maps accompanying the report, which chart life expectancy for both men and women across the United States. Women fare a bit worse, but Americans of both genders are more likely to die earlier if they live in the South:
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Obamacare hopes to help ease some of those health disparities by giving low-income and rural Americans better access to care. The health law will do that partly by making big investments in community health centers, which provide services to poorer areas of the country that typically lack health resources. On Wednesday, the Obama administration awarded $150 million in grant money to over 1,100 community health centers that will help low-income Americans enroll in Obamacare plans. “Those of us in the Obama administration have been working hard to make sure Americans who’ve been out of the health system finally get in,” Mary Wakefield, the administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, explained.
The health reform law also hopes to achieve this goal through its optional Medicaid expansion, which would extend health coverage to additional low-income people who don’t currently qualify for the program. But, since many stubborn governors in Southern states have resisted this Obamacare provision — even though their states would likely benefit significantly from it — a large gulf between different regions will likely remain.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35531.htm
 
Government does such a great job in the school system we should be happy to have them in the health care business..
 
Government does such a great job in the school system we should be happy to have them in the health care business..
you mean to tell me that the va and medicare and Tricare are so well run they do a better job then the private market? I have Tricare which until recently wasn't cheaper then my civilian counter part. some of that I don't blame Obama. but rather what city hall did to save money, but Tricare is being chipped at and if it wasn't for vet groups, I would be on obamacare.
 
there is a massive disparity in my county tween wealth and my county is tween 75 for 80 for women and men.
 
First let me start by saying a death investigation is warranted in Joan Rivers death. However there are double standards for the rich and not rich. In 2012 my only child who was 17 died from a blood clot after arriving by ambulance a hour later. He died because they refuse to treat him. I ask for a investigation and they sent a nurse from the health department out who stated yes there were mistakes made, but he wouldn't have survive anyway. The CEO for the hospital brother is the States Attorney. No one cares and understands but Jesus the pain and suffering that replays in your head.
 
im not saying that there isn't injustice but well, im a vet. the death of vets at the va isn't new to me. its been that way since I can remember. if the government cant handle the va it cant even pay for the other 95% OF THE population.
 
Death is the final test - 1 Corinthians 15:26 NIV. I continue to fight the good fight of faith. Knowing the Lord has encamped His Angels around my wife and I. Sometimes God will allow the thing that He hates the most to accomplish the thing He loves. Sometimes it takes a deep hurt to feel a deep need for God. Pain drives you to God. However we don't die we depart. We have victory over death. The joy of the Lord is my strength. Heavenly Father you give and take away. And on that day when my strength is failing the end draws near and my time has come, still my soul will sing Your praise unending. I will bless the Lord at all times. I'll worship your Holy name. There's no place I'd rather be than here in your love. Set a fire down in my soul that I can't contain. I want more. I need more. I want so much more of You Jesus.

12 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:12-13 NLT

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:4-7 NIV
 
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