Supply and Demand.
If there is no supply of good public infrastructure, inclusive institutions, good governance, etc. people will go elsewhere.
And also, lol.
Supply and Demand.
If there is no supply of good public infrastructure, inclusive institutions, good governance, etc. people will go elsewhere.
And also, lol.
According to the data in this article, the number of births in Alabama has remained pretty static since 2010, but there was a big jump up in deaths each year since 2020. I wonder what was behind that
My money is on failure to engage with medical care due to costs.
Rumor is the hospitals down there tightly ration their care. The health industry rations care not just in the way Luigi pointed out, but in not staffing their hospitals with enough personnel and overbooking primary doctors like they’re airports during the holidays.
Scheduling a PCP visit takes months. Doctors get 10min per patient plus a ton of electronic boxes to check. If you’re late, then you lose your appointment and now have to wait weeks or months for another appointment. How many problems get missed in this system?
Also. Items that used to be CT scans are now recommended to be ultrasound first. Why? CTs had this cool side feature where they’d spot other problems that you weren’t looking for but needed to be addressed right away. So, now ultrasound is the standard, as it’s highly focused and far less likely to catch a peripheral picture of a second problem.
ED won’t fix it unless it’s an emergency, meaning, you’re about to die, the months long waiting doesn’t make it an emergency.
Hiring or not is choice made by corporate, one that can cut into profits. So it’s rationed as is all the money in health care.
I think their point was there might have been a major event in 2020 that really kicked off all these deaths.
If we don’t test, the numbers won’t go up!