Bloomberg Report: The U.S. Lags in Life Expectancy Gains

In the past 40 years, America has dropped from above average to below average life expectancy among developed countries, despite the fact that we spend significantly more per capita on healthcare.

“Life expectancy [in the U.S.] is now more than a year below the OECD average of 80.1,” the OECD said in a press statement, “compared to one year above the average in 1970.”
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report

Every single country doing better than us has some form of socialized healthcare. Purely privatized healthcare for the vast majority of Americans is not fine. The Affordable Care Act may have some serious issues in both implementation and, you know, affordability, but the system is a step in the right direction. It needs to be fixed, not scrapped.

Unless, of course, someone got serious about an actual single-payer system.