SammyChevelleTypeS3
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Is Medicaid a program for people who either did / do not work or who have no benefits coming to them from any former workplaces?
U.S life expectancy by state
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There is this strange strip of high cancer rates stretching from Maine to Mississippi. I guess some call it the cancer belt. I saw a article on it not long ago - very strange. https://www.businessinsider.com/map...le-the-darker-the-color-the-higher-the-rate-1
And what is the source of this?
Eh, cook county has one of the highest crimes per capital for the state.
The thing about it is that most of the violent crime in Chicago is confined to a few specific regions of the city, most of the city proper is as safe as anywhere else. Also, the violent crime rate was dramatically down in September of 2024 compared to a year prior, and down further this year, continuing the downward trend since the COVID spike. Despite a lot of propaganda, the crime rate just about everywhere has been on the downslope since a massive spike during COVID, and the major cities are even more extreme in that regard.
https://abc7chicago.com/feature/chicago-neighborhood-safety-tracker/12385906/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/chicago-homicides-2025/
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I think it is just a weird coincidence.
LA is just as toxic as well as some parts of MS. Poor healthcare, lack of basic sanitation in LA and MS (AL too). KY, PA, VW, rest of the Rust Belt, coal mines, opioid crisis, etc. The opioid crisis has a similar track too.
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I think you could be right on this, the Northeast makes sense because that's been historically the most heavily industrialized for longer, meaning lots more superfund sites, lots more chemicals leached into the soil and water from before that stuff was cracked down on. The midwest is heavily industrialized too but that happened much later relatively speaking than the east coast. That's much less so in AL and MS, though both of those states have fairly large (by modern American standards) shipbuilding and refit yards, and a lot of the chemicals used on ships are not very safe, especially on older ships that probably still contain quite a bit of asbestos. But I'd be interested to see a more detailed breakdown by type of cancer, I bet we'd see a difference in types between regions.
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I was in Chicago a while back, there were people in the main part of the city, not a bad part of town, after covid, dancing in the streets with boom boxes, smoking weed and one of them was carrying a baseball bat on his shoulder.
A few bad apples spoil the bunch regardless what the stats say, they don't call it Chiraq for nothing.
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Louisiana has a huge chemical/oil industry. It is known as Cancer Alley.
A lot of this is driven by access to healthcare. When you neglect things, they become dark statistics. For example, some places have very good access to healthcare in AL (I lived there). But rural Alabama is an entirely different world.
It would be interesting to see the type of cancers. Here in CO< it is absolutely skin cancer.
I wouldn't exactly call dancing in the streets with boom boxes smoking weed an example of "bad apples" on it's own, that just sounds like a block party... And without context I can't comment on the baseball bat either. You were there so I'd have to defer to your judgement but just by description it doesn't sound like something to be particularly worried about...?
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I am going to Chicago in a week for 10 days with the kids, so I will let you know.
I have seen that stuff literally everywhere around the US.
No, Medicaid is a state run program (every state has one) but it's name changes state to state
It's health insurance for those who are under a certain income limit (fairly low here in NY) or it's available to you on a temporary basis (should you become unemployed)
When you can't afford COBRA, or it runs out, or your job doesn't offer full time benefits, or you're breadwinner walks out on you, it's supposed to be there for you
I was on it, my parents made it quite clear they'd have been bankrupt several times over bringing me into this world without it
I remember it being referral heavy, but I got what I needed, and am thankful for it
When I got my first job, I switched to private insurance through my employer
Shame I live & work in the cancer hotspots of NYC
I'm probably gonna drag that statistic down
I'm always fascinated by US map graphic representation of data. But it always makes me curious, how accurate, and how consistent in methodology, are all the states at reporting data? Some time ago I saw another report on mortality by state. But the study was candid in stating that some states use different metrics for measuring and reporting mortality rates.
Not with all the broke da mouth, deep fried, gravy all ovah, double scoop mac salad plate lunches we have here.
I'll have those once in a while though, sub the mac salad for leafy greens though.
Funny that UTAH and Washington are pretty much a tie. Yet so culturally different - not that anecdotally it proves much, other than the human mind will see patterns- even if none really exist . Or the data isn’t as accurate and precise as it appears.
In 2010 UCLA did a study saying the major practiced religion in Utah had a life expectancy of it's followers of 86 years......due to no smoking and no alcohol use.
So yea-the numbers are conflicting a little (with that study) vs. Washington.
So yea-the numbers are conflicting a little (with that study) vs. Washington.
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Good point, the context was that it looked threatening. Still, that's up to interpretation but, that's not the kind of block party I want to be involved in. To add they were blocking sidewalks and going into the street. There was not much regard for others or decency, to these folks, probably normal and just another day. To me it's a bizzaro world.
A lot of the troublemakers should be in hiding ICE and the feds roaming around. I'd wager now is probably the best time to go!
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