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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12674976

People living in England enjoy better health than Americans, despite less investment in healthcare, research published in the US has revealed.

Across all ages, US residents tend to fare worse in terms of diabetes, high cholesterol and heart disease markers, data on over 100,000 people show.
The reason remains a mystery, says the US team, and challenges the idea that resources necessarily improve health.
It may be due to the UK's bigger drive on disease prevention, they say.
Transatlantic health gap Despite the greater use of health care technology in the US, Americans receive less preventive health care than their English counterparts.
They have fewer physician consultations per year.
Acute hospital visits are also shorter in the US, potentially resulting in missed opportunities for follow-up, say the report authors in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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Why health status differs so dramatically in these two countries, which share much in terms of history and culture, is an unresolved puzzle”
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It is also possible that differences in social or environmental conditions or lifestyle play a role.
But despite looking, the researchers did not find any real evidence that differences in obesity, alcohol consumption or physical activity were to blame.
Smoking may be a factor, but Dr Melissa Martinson and colleagues doubt it because even younger Americans who have not yet been exposed to decades of tobacco smoke appear to be in worse health than English counterparts.
And although a larger share of Americans are uninsured or under insured compared to populations in England or other European countries, even groups with good access to health insurance experienced worse health than people in England.
The researchers say: "Why health status differs so dramatically in these two countries, which share much in terms of history and culture, is an unresolved puzzle.
"Given our finding of health differences between the US and England at young ages, a promising focus of future research - one that could help to elucidate the causes of poor health across the life course - is on health differences between countries at the earliest ages."
Public health experts suggested more generous holiday entitlements and more favourable working conditions in the UK might also play a part.
A spokesperson from the Department of Health said: "The NHS offers care free to all at the point of use and based on need.
"Whilst in some areas our outcomes may be favourable compared with those in the US, we are still clear that we have a long way to go before we achieve outcomes comparable with the best performing health systems.
"That is exactly why we are modernising the NHS."
 
The reason is not 'a mystery'. US food is shittier, it's over produced and it's fatty and high in salt and all sorts of shit hence diabetes and obesity and heart disease.

Ta da!! Why they didn't ask me so this mystery was easily solved I will never know.
 
Maybe. Probably exorcise a helluva lot more to though.

Biggest difference is we probably walk a hell of a lot more. America is so vast and spaced out that unless you're in a huge city getting by without a car seems to be pretty impossible and cars are more convenient so you drive more, walk less. Here we have tons more public transport and things are closer so you're more inclined to walk a lot in the day time.
 
Only in the same way that healthcare is free in America. To people on welfare.

referrals for dental surgery are free if contact with primary healthcare is made first.

also a few simple forms will get you your money back in most cases, same with opticians.

it has been this way since Bevin conjured up the NHS..