The 50 year failure of American healthcare

Marty Makary MD, MPH writes in Sensible Medicine:

The last 50 years of American health care has been a failure. Half of our nation’s children are overweight or obese. Autism has increased 14% each year for the last 23 years. Pancreatic cancer rates have doubled in the last two decades as colorectal cancer increasingly strikes younger and younger people. Polycystic ovarian disease, causing pain and infertility, is epidemic, now afflicting one in eight women. Sperm counts are down by 50% compared to just 50 years ago. Auto-immune diseases have soared to now affect approximately one in five women. And peanut and other food allergies that were rare 50 years ago are now common and can be life-threatening. America is getting sicker. Yet no one in our health care system is asking why.

The medical establishment and insurance entities, including Medicare and Medicaid, don’t seem to be paying attention to our giant blind spots. They’re too busy billing and paying each other to zoom out and look at a macro level. The old guard has chalked up our chronic disease epidemic to “sedentary lifestyle and obesity.” But could it be that American children are not inherently lazy?

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CDC data shows more than 40% of adults in the US are technically obese

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CDC data shows more than 40% of adults in the US are technically obese.

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