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The mayor says that it’s because the nearest hospital is 45 km away, but a full 16% of the US population, or roughly 55 million people, live further than that from a hospital (https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/hospital-deserts/index.html).
US healthcare really needs to stop looking like a third-world country.
Well, that’d require us to stop being a 3rd world country. GDP aside more than 1 in 10 Americans live in relative poverty.
There are few effective social programs and a very authoritarian power structure even before the incoming clusterfuck.
The US is absolutely not a third world country. Now, a developing country . . .
Italy’s population density is twice that of the US.
Rural hospitals have been getting shut down for years now due to it not being a great money maker, it’s the same reason rural Americans wouldn’t have to their door mail access without it being included in the Constitution.
Even without taking population density into account, access is only going to get worse when hospitals keep shuttering.
Nearly 16 percent of America’s mainland is 30 miles or more away from a hospital with emergency care.
The next time they state that the wording is confusing. On first read I thought it was 16% of the population.
Look at the map in your article. Pictured are vast tracks of deserts, mountains, badlands, etc. And look even closer. That spot in NY is where a bunch of wilderness areas come together. The spots in FL are swamps. I’ve driven through that spot in OK, it’s beautiful, but mostly empty of humans.
Besides, 28 miles to a hospital isn’t too awful, unless you’re grievously injured. The vast majority of healthcare is taken care of by smaller units. Even in my little town we have 2 stand-alone emergency rooms (and a full hospital).
Now if I just had insurance and could afford to go to those places… Coming down with bronchitis today, nothing I can do unless I spend the last of my savings.
Their wording is confusing, but I think what you first understood is correct. Over 30 million Americans don’t even live within an hour of a trauma care department (and an hour is further away): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28069138/
“This is not just a provocation, the ordinance is a cry for help, a way to shine a spotlight on an unacceptable situation,” Mr Torchia told local news outlet Corriere della Calabria.
Do even English people say “I’ve fallen sick”? Sounds so dramatic.
…and I can’t get up!
Call an ambulance!
In this economy???
Life alert is a life saver! I wouldn’t be here without life alert.
“I’ve fallen ill” is a common expression in the UK. “Fallen sick” would be a little unusual
Down with the sickness.
Some cultures even use the phrase “fallen pregnant”.
People taking vitamins and vaccines when you can just ban illness! Novel approach.
Vitamins don’t do anything for health unless you are vitamin deficient.
Sure they do. They harm your health if used in excess.
Unless you’re going absolutely insane with them you’ll typically just pee them out.
Not vitamin D.
“Take two spoonfuls 🤌 of Extra Virgin Olive Oil 👋 with your daily lasagna. 👐You’ll be right as rain.👌”
Many great doctors, the best healers, say to inject Tide Pods, many have said it, it’s true, it washes and cleans the blood right up.
