President\u2019s proposed budget slashes health department by 12% while throwing $1.5tn \u2013 a 42% increase \u2013 to the military<\/p>\n
Americans are dying in droves. Deaths due to avoidable causes<\/a> in the United States \u2013which could be dealt with via prevention or proper healthcare<\/a> \u2013 far outpace those in most of country\u2019s peers in the industrialized world. Most notably, Americans die of treatable conditions<\/a> at nearly twice the rate as Spaniards, French, Japanese and Australians.<\/p>\n They would most likely live longer if they enjoyed better access to healthcare. Americans are the most likely to skip a doctor\u2019s appointment<\/a> due to its cost, the most likely to skip a medical test<\/a> and to skimp on prescription drugs<\/a>. This is unsurprising, given the extraordinary lack of public health insurance<\/a> in the United States. Americans face the highest out-of-pocket expenses <\/a>for medical services in their peer group.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President\u2019s proposed budget slashes health department by 12% while throwing $1.5tn \u2013 a 42% increase \u2013 to the military Americans are dying in droves. Deaths due to avoidable causes in the United States \u2013which could be dealt with via prevention or proper healthcare \u2013 far outpace those in most of country\u2019s peers in the industrialized … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}