Dying of Whiteness
by Jonathan Michel Metzl · first published 2019
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"With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life great again for people like them. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the right-wing policies that resulted from this white backlash put these voters' very health at risk--and, in the end, threaten everyone's well-being. Physician and sociologist Jonathan M. Metzl travels across America's heartland seeking to better understand the politics of racial resentment and its impact on public health. Interviewing a ran
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I don't know why you got downvoted. If you don't believe this, read "Dying of Whiteness" by Jonathan Metzl. Something like 30% of this country will reject quality of life improvements for themselves if they see that it will also benefit people of other races who "don't deserve it".
on “Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It” ↗This study is essentially saying the same thing that Jonathan Metzls' book, Dying of Whiteness said in 2020, in that a major cause of this is red controlled states rejecting Medicaid expansion vs. blue states embracing it leads to obvious worse outcomes for those folks who lack healthcare coverage.…
on “U.S. death rates show how politics are affecting public health” ↗> When you grab em by their Amygdala, the naked monkeys will do what you want. Even to their own detriment. Even to their own death (and the death of friends/family): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40697553-dying-of-whiten...
on “Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3” ↗Johnathan Metzl explores it a bit in his book Dying of Whiteness[0]. Here's an example of something he described in an interview[1] about the book and his other work: >Now I will say that some of the individual stories—I mean, one story that jumps out at me was I…
on “100 years of whatever this will be” ↗…subset of the population would rather pay more for worse health outcomes than participate in a system the provides abortions, HRT, or PreP, or any healthcare at all to Black people. See, for example, “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland” by Jonathan Metzl
on “US commercial insurers pay 254% of Medicare for the same hospital procedures” ↗Some of these folks are willing to kill themselves as well if they think the alternative is some minority receiving benefits. See Dying of Whiteness. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/jonathan-m-metzl-dying... > Even on death’s doorstep, Trevor was not angry. In fact, he staunchly supported the stance promoted by his elected officials. “Ain’t…
Yes. Jonathan Metzl wrote a book about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness
on “Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114,000 Lives a Year, Yale Study” ↗