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“If each year we lose 30,000 young, able-bodied people who could work for another 20-30 years, that is an additional loss [to the economy],” he said.
Depressing that it has to be explained in terms of the economy to get people to care.
Caring and prioritizing may be different. Having concrete numbers can enable decision makers to convince others.
Something being the right thing to do is not a convincing argument.
I think you just described the sad thing perfectly.
Gotta make some judgements for human lives/money at some point.
E.g. safety at you place of work. There is some middle ground between working naked at a steel smelter and covered in protective gear at your desk job. Some times people have differing opinions.
The mean value of a Russian life is rather low. So it may actually seem close to some.
Are they still in the HIV denial phase? That’s about 40 years behind. The rest of the world has a couple people cured and are close to a vaccine.
They stopped tracking HIV deaths a decade or two ago when it became apparent that the Russian government doesn’t fucking care, largely because they are thinking of it in a (hilariously ironic) Reagan-esque mentality of it being a “gay disease”. And the Russian government HATES gay people.
For comparison, in the US, annually, about 5,000 people die from HIV as the underlying cause, and another 8,000 die from HIV as a contributing cause. https://www.kff.org/hivaids/fact-sheet/the-hiv-aids-epidemic-in-the-united-states-the-basics/
The US has double the population as well...
And third world health care, mostly.
For now Prep is free for most people though which probably helps a lot.
What? The healthcare is good the healthcare system is bad
You have an embarassed billionaire healthcare.
"It's the best in the world! I just don't have access to it right now. But once I do, you'll see!" they say, trying to decide between bleeding to death and the ambulance.
If that isn't an oxymoron, it's as close as it gets.
A healthcare system not providing healthcare can't be said to have good healthcare.
Just because SOME people receive good healthcare, doesn't mean the healthcare is good overall or on average.
Maybe it could hypothetically be the case that the system is bad but the care is good overall, but that is certainly NOT the case regarding healthcare in USA.
It's absolutely justified to say healthcare in USA is on the level of a third world country. Cheap rhetoric doesn't change that.
Yes we rank 173/227 in infant mortality.
It's so great more than 50 other countries beat us at keeping baby's alive to a year old.
And that's data reported by us, so if they could skew it to make us look better, I'm sure they would have.
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortality-rate/country-comparison/
Looking elsewhere it appears we ranked 55th in keeping them alive to 5 years old as well. Not to great