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Costa Ricans Live Longer Than Us. What’s the Secret?
Costa Rica’s per-capita income is a sixth that of the U.S., and they spend a fraction of what we do on health care, but life expectancy there is longer. That happened when they made public health central to the delivery of medical care. Every Costa Rican is assigned a local primary-health-care team, which includes a physician, a nurse, and a trained health worker known as an ATAP, who visits every household in the community at least once a year. Earlier this year, Atul Gawande accompanied Leonardo Herrera, an ATAP in a small mountain town, on his home visits. “There was nothing magical about the care I saw that day,” Gawande writes. “Herrera wasn’t a saint. But he may have been something better than that: he was the point of contact between a national system and a great many individual lives.” At the link, Gawande writes about what Costa Rica can teach the rest of the world about public health.
- Their healthcare and insurance providers are NOT allowed to rape society. And their politicians do NOT get financial kick-backs
from corporations.utopian - Yet they can't afford an army. How can they protect their freedom?palimpsest
- yeah but fucking commies, something something Venezuela.
-HotRoddy_niko - Huh? Public health is normal in developed countries, except the banana countries, like the US********
- Also this is not about public health but fast food - obesity in the US is over 40% https://www.cdc.gov/…
Fat fucks******** - But do they have access to monsetr trucks and unlimited machine guns? I don't think so!PhanLo
- Fair enough PhanLo********
- Who’d have though free healthcare would benefit society as a whole?Chimp
- Their healthcare and insurance providers are NOT allowed to rape society. And their politicians do NOT get financial kick-backs