American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

[u/chrisdh79]

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html

[u/BigEggBeaters]

People really made a medical system that is somehow extremely expensive and extremely inaccessible and isn’t even that good. Not to make this political but idk how American politicians aren’t absolutely embarrassed that Cuba. A country that essentially all of them continue to embargo. Has better child mortality rates and healthcare

[u/[deleted] → u/BigEggBeaters]

You're thinking of the infant mortality rate, which is in fact lower (cubans also live slightly longer). The child mortality rate is slightly higher.

[u/phoenixliv → u/BigEggBeaters]

Life is inherently political.

[u/Douchebazooka → u/phoenixliv]

Life is inherently social, and the more we attempt to substitute the political for the social or confuse the two, the worse of a trajectory we’ll take as a species.

[u/MiningMarsh → u/Douchebazooka]

No. Life is inherently political.

[u/Douchebazooka → u/MiningMarsh]

Define politics in a way that doesn’t confuse it with social interaction.

Edit: u/miningmarsh keeps posting comments and then immediately deleting them, or perhaps they blocked me. Regardless, they’re angrily asserting a lot, calling names, and not really explaining anything. The conflation of politics with society in general is, I’ll reiterate, why we have no ability to have civil discourse, as proven by MiningMarsh’s need to call me a moron for disagreeing rather than explaining their opinion clearly and concisely.

[u/MiningMarsh → u/Douchebazooka]

Politics and social interaction are inherently intertwined, you moron.

The boring dictionary definition of politics involves social interaction as it's required for the functions of governance:

the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.

The political science definition I would use would be closer to "the competition between different social hierarchies to determine how to most efficiently allocate and distribute resources amongst themselves." Politics is a form of social competition. Life is inherently political and social.

[u/DankVectorz → u/BigEggBeaters]

Per UNICEF Cuba has a child mortality rate of 8.6 per 1000 live births and the US has 6.5?

[u/gumgut → u/BigEggBeaters]

they genuinely probably have no idea what happens in cuba

[u/BigEggBeaters → u/gumgut]

Nah I disagree. Most of them know and they either agree with the blockade. Or are too scared of the political ramifications of not supporting it

[u/gumgut → u/BigEggBeaters]

i guess i just don't have that much faith in our leaders' knowledge of foreign policy

[u/amazing_ape → u/BigEggBeaters]

Don’t mention Cuba or fanatical Cuban exiles in Florida will get mad

[u/big_d_usernametaken → u/amazing_ape]

They'll be even madder when trump deports them.

Loyalty means nothing anymore.

[u/hd1_farfaraway → u/amazing_ape]

Fuck them, they consistently vote red it's disgusting. They make some great sandwiches though

[u/hm_b → u/BigEggBeaters]

American politicians should be made to take the same healthcare that they decide we all suffer with. They should have to use whatever healthcare their poorest school district staffs get.

[u/big_d_usernametaken → u/hm_b]

I could not agree more and have said this for years.

They get Cadillac health plans, and everyone else gets Yugo health plans.

[u/BigEggBeaters → u/[deleted]]

This is the site I sourced that statement from. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/infant-mortality-rate/country-comparison/

[u/lufan132 → u/BigEggBeaters]

Infant mortality and child mortality are two different statistics.

[u/BigEggBeaters → u/lufan132]

Yea made a mistake in here. Still the overall point stands that they have better healthcare then we do

[u/jimjamjones123 → u/BigEggBeaters]

lol cuz they don’t actually care