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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you live in the United States of America, you live in a giant prison where liberty and freedom are slowly being strangled to death.  In this country, the control freaks that run things are obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everything that we do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing is private anymore.  Everything that you do on the Internet is being monitored.  All of your phone calls are being monitored.  In fact, if law enforcement authorities suspect that you have done something wrong, they will use your cell phone microphone to listen to you even when you think your cell phone is turned off.  In many areas of the country, when you get into your car automated license plate readers track you wherever you go, and in many major cities when you are walking on the streets a vast network of security cameras and “smart street lights” are constantly watching you and listening to whatever you say.  The TSA is setting up “internal checkpoints” all over the nation, Homeland Security is encouraging all of us to report any “suspicious activity” that our neighbors are involved in and the federal government is rapidly developing “pre-crime” technology that will flag us as “potential terrorists” if we display any signs of nervousness.  If you are flagged as a “potential terrorist”, the U.S. military can arrest you and detain you for the rest of your life without ever having to charge you with anything.  Yes, the United States of America is rapidly being turned into a “Big Brother” prison grid, and most Americans are happily going along with it.</span></div>
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30 Signs That The United States Of America Is Being Turned Into A Giant Prison

If you live in the United States of America, you live in a giant prison where liberty and freedom are slowly being strangled to death. In...

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The director of a massive new study says: “It’s almost everything.”</h1>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the wake of a startling report highlighting the United States’ poor health compared with other wealthy nations, the report’s director searches for answers.</em></div>
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Americans die younger and experience more injury and illness than people in other rich nations, despite spending almost twice as much per person on health care. That was the startling <a href="http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/US-Health-in-International-Perspective-Shorter-Lives-Poorer-Health.aspx" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #56818c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">conclusion of a major report</a> released earlier this year by the U.S. National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine.</div>
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It received widespread attention. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/opinion/americas-health-disadvantage.html?_r=0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #56818c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em></a> concluded: "It is now shockingly clear that poor health is a much broader and deeper problem than past studies have suggested."</div>
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What it revealed was the extent of the United States' large and growing "health disadvantage," which shows up as higher rates of disease and injury from birth to age 75 for men and women, rich and poor, across all races and ethnicities. The comparison countries—Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom—generally do much better, although the United Kingdom isn't far behind the United States.</div>
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The poorer outcomes in the United States are reflected in measures as varied as infant mortality, the rate of teen pregnancy, traffic fatalities, and heart disease. Even those with health insurance, high incomes, college educations, and healthy lifestyles appear to be sicker than their counterparts in other wealthy countries. The <a href="http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2013/01/10/the-health-of-americans-its-worse-than-you-think/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #56818c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">U.S. Council on Foreign Relations</a>, a nonpartisan think tank, described the report as "a catalog of horrors."</div>
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Findings that prompted this reaction include the fact that the rate of premature births in the United States is the highest among the comparison countries and more closely resembles those of sub-Saharan Africa. Premature birth is the most frequent cause of infant death in the United States, and the cost to the health care system is <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/PretermBirth.htm" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #56818c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">estimated to top $26 billion a year</a>.</div>
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As distressing as all this is, much less attention has been given to the obvious question: Why is the United States so unwell? The answer, it turns out, is simple and yet deceptively complex: It's almost everything.</div>
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Our health depends on much more than just medical care. Behaviors such as diet, physical activity, and even how fast we drive all have profound effects. So do the environments that expose us to health risks or discourage healthy living, as well as social determinants of health, such as education, income, and poverty.</div>
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The United States fares poorly in almost all of these. In addition to many millions of people lacking health insurance, financial barriers to care, and a lack of primary care providers compared with other rich countries, people in the United States consume more calories, are more sedentary, abuse more drugs, and shoot one another more often. The United States also lags behind on many measures of education, has higher child poverty and income inequality, and lower social mobility than most other advanced democracies.</div>
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The breadth of these causal factors, and the scope of the U.S. health disadvantage they produce, raises some fundamental questions about U.S. society. As the NRC/IOM report noted, solutions exist for many of these health problems, but there is "limited political support among both the public and policymakers to enact the policies and commit the necessary resources."</div>
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One major impediment is that the United States, which emphasizes self-reliance, individualism, and free markets, is resistant to anything that even appears to hint at socialism. Interestingly, as a group, classically liberal nations like the United States and the United Kingdom—free market-oriented with less regulation, tax, and government services—are the least healthy among wealthy democracies.</div>
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By contrast, social democratic countries such as Sweden—in which the state emphasizes full employment, income protection, housing, education, health and social insurance—enjoy better overall health, although <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22475407" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #56818c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">health inequalities within these nations</a> are not always the smallest.</div>
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<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/why-cant-america-be-sweden/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #56818c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Debates about the relative merits of "cut-throat" U.S. versus "cuddly" Swedish capitalism</a>contend that there are important trade-offs between economic growth and innovation on the one hand and growing inequality, high poverty, and a weak social safety net on the other. Unfortunately, these debates often fail to factor in our health. That needs to change.</div>
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And, as it turns out, the <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138483/kimberly-j-morgan/americas-misguided-approach-to-social-welfare" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #56818c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">United States spends plenty on social welfare</a>. It may tax less and spend less on social programs than most rich democracies, but when you add in tax-based subsidies and private social spending, it <a href="http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/is-the-european-welfare-state-really-more-expensive_5kg2d2d4pbf0-en" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #56818c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ranks as the fifth highest in the world</a>, just after Sweden. What distinguishes the United States is how that money is spent. More goes to healthcare—while still leaving many without health insurance or access to care—and less to children, families, and the disadvantaged.</div>
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Digging into the social determinants of health can be tricky. Social scientists and other researchers are rightly trained not to confuse correlation with causation. But the <a href="http://www.nyas.org/publications/annals/Detail.aspx?cid=79be4d13-c2ef-4d4c-8249-09130fa910e7" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #56818c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">evidence on the biology of disadvantage</a>—how social and economic conditions affect our health and survival—is rapidly building.</div>
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Following the World Health Organization's 2008 <a href="http://www.who.int/social_determinants/thecommission/en/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #56818c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Commission on Social Determinants of Health</a>, countries such as Finland, Australia, and Canada are taking a "health in all policies" approach that promotes health through public policies in areas as diverse as transportation, housing, and agriculture. In the United States, these ideas have yet to gain much traction.</div>
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Source: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/07/health_in_the_u_s_and_other_rich_countries_we_pay_more_in_health_care_but.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/07/health_in_the_u_s_and_other_rich_countries_we_pay_more_in_health_care_but.html</a></div>
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Why Is the United States So Sick?

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