‘The most rationed healthcare system in the world.’ ibid.
Welcome to the United States of Addiction: we want everything big, we want everything now, and we don’t want to work for it. Prescription Thugs, Netflix 2015
People were dying from prescription drugs ... Doctors are starting to look like drug pushers; and if they are the dealers, what does that make us? ibid.
We consume 75% of the world’s drugs. ibid.
Are we just a nation of prescription thugs? ibid.
Mad Dog’s [Mike Bell] addiction began in wrestling. ibid.
‘These doctors are profiting from keeping you sick.’ ibid. addiction counsellor
One in every ten Americans are on anti-depressants. ibid.
Wired to fourteen channels of body function, an experimental subject practices biofeedback. Using biofeedback people reduce muscular tension, redirect blood flow, and perform feats previously thought impossible. Might we one day create super-athletes? Could biofeedback bring about a revolution in human health? In Search of s6e2 … Biofeedback, History 1981
Health products: from low fat foods to vitamin supplements, snack bars to medicines, there probably isn’t a house in Britain that doesn’t have at least a handful of these. But are we getting what we think we’re paying for? Are They a Con? Health Products s1e2, Channel 5 2020
The UK has the 6th largest beauty and health care market in the world worth billions of pounds each year. ibid.
Superfood … means nothing. ibid.
Online intolerance tests … There’s no actual scientific evidence to suggest intolerance tests work at all. ibid.
The Covid pandemic is highlighting shocking patterns, revealing how this disease attacks men and women differently … ‘Men have about a 40% higher chance of dying compared to women’ … What I discover is that even though women generally outlive men, there is a dangerous gender gap in the data and the way women are treated. I learn how biases in diagnoses can be life threatening. So when it comes to our health, how much does sex matter? Are Women the Fitter Sex? Channel 4 2021
In England, men account for 60% of all [Covid-19] deaths. ibid.
‘Women tend to generate greater immune responses to viruses than men do.’ ibid. Professor Klein
Females may have a biological advantage when it comes to many cancers and diseases. ibid.
Women tend to have more body fat than men where medicines can accumulate and linger; their kidneys are also smaller … Women metabolise drugs differently. ibid.
Even now in the UK including females in clinical trials isn’t a legal requirement. ibid.
Now with Coronavirus the colour of my skin seems to be putting me at risk again? As a 55 year old back man I am three times more likely to die from Covid-19 than a white man of my age. I want to find out what’s driving this connection between my race and my health. Why is Covid Killing People of Colour? David Harewood reporting, BBC 2021
Covid-19 is just one part of a scandalous health inequality in Britain. ibid.
‘So there’s something specific about what happens to people of colour in societies like the US and the United Kingdom that’s not related to biology that makes them more at risk of dying of Covid-19 … Deprivation is bad for your health. ibid. expert
Racism and discrimination … in the health outcomes of black people. ibid.
America spends more money per capita on healthcare than any other nation on earth. Why American Healthcare is the Worst in the Developed World, Youtube 10.22, Second Thought 2020
Not only is quality of care sub par, we don’t even cover everybody. ibid.
Life-saving drugs in America often cost ten times what they cost in other countries. ibid.
Every year over half a million people go bankrupt trying to pay their medical bills. ibid.
The needs of the people are secondary to the profit motive. ibid.
American citizens are on the brink of disaster now more than ever … The absurd cost of prescription drugs. America’s Prescription Drug Cartel, Youtube 13.42, Second Thought 2021
Price gouging – standard American operating procedure. ibid.
Despite being the most expensive healthcare system on earth … it’s one of if not the least effective in the developed world. ibid.
Is the NHS at breaking point? As the gaps widen between expectation and reality – hospital gridlock, falling GP numbers, and an overwhelmed social care system, the NHS was set up to be free at the point at use but what does that look like in 2024. Darren McGarvey: The State We’re In s1e3: Health, BBC 2024
Now of course because of a growing body of research people know that unemployment and poverty have health consequences. Professor Richard Wilkinson, cited The Divide, 2015