The Dark Truth About America's Health
00:00:00.000 | you say that the more we invest in health care,
00:00:02.120 | the sicker we get.
00:00:03.000 | People don't quite understand how bad the statistics are.
00:00:05.720 | So right now, 74% of American adults overweight or obese.
00:00:09.520 | 1 in 2 Americans in their lifetime
00:00:11.880 | are expected to get cancer.
00:00:13.400 | We're going to have the highest number of cancer cases
00:00:16.160 | ever in history this year, over 2 million new cases.
00:00:18.760 | Young adult cancers are up 79%.
00:00:21.060 | So our health is not good.
00:00:23.720 | We are spending actually 2x more than any other country
00:00:26.060 | in the entire world on health care,
00:00:27.520 | and we have dismal health outcomes.
00:00:29.540 | We have the worst infant and maternal mortality
00:00:32.800 | of any developed country in the United States.
00:00:34.820 | It's more dangerous for me to give birth in this country
00:00:37.280 | than if I went to any other high income country in the world.
00:00:40.160 | This is wild, because $4.3 trillion
00:00:42.760 | are spent on health care each year.
00:00:44.220 | That's 23 or so percent of the largest GP in the country.
00:00:48.080 | And meanwhile, it's a train wreck,
00:00:50.660 | and life expenses has been going down for the past three years.