BLog stage 2

The article that I read was “Being American Is Bad for Your Health” by Marty Kaplan. This article explains how our health-care is declining, even though we spend more on our health care than any other country, we are still one of the worst countries in the world due to our poor health care. Too show how bad our health care system is, Kaplan even goes so far as to say “if you are born in the US then it’s detrimental to your health” However, according to the Guinness World Records there are five Americans out of the top ten people worldwide to hold the record for living the longest. The article uses a study from"U.S. health disadvantage" recently issued by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, which was conducted over 18 months by experts in medicine and public health, demography, social science, political science, economics, behavioral science and epidemiology. Based on all of these studies Kaplan concludes how bad American are but this study uses issue outside the realm of health-care. The article also states the problems about how we are dying so young such as, horrible diseases, car accidents and homicides, which health care handles once it happened but what about prevention for these problems. I enjoyed that Kaplan tells you what Americans are doing wrong such as drinking and smoking too much, plus, having very bad food habits and not exercising enough. The main problem that can be seen with this article is that it doesn’t offer us any solutions, to our health care crisis. It great that it makes you feel something and you get all excited to go out and change the world but he doesn’t offer a solution on how do to it. Another problem is that it’s a one sided argument t by not showing the other sides of Americans who are choosing to make good decision with their lives, and what there statistics are on longevity, happiness and life fulfillment are, it shows that this is a very bias argument and I would have like to see more solution and an example of people in or out of America who are making better life choices.

Kaplan, marty. Being American Is Bad for Your Health. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Feb. 2013 http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/marty-kaplan/47940/being-american-is-bad-for-your-health