Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I don't care about their pilot medical standards.
But no we shouldn't use foreign demographics either way. Japanese are presumably healthier (diet).
Most other foreign demographics are not as healthy as upper middle class Americans. We have access to and can afford decent healthcare, and are culturally inclined to healthy living. More so than most foreigners, who overall tend to smoke more and exercise less.
That last paragraph is pure comedy gold. Not even close. Excerpt from report written in 2021. Feel free to look elsewhere if it’s not palatable. I can’t find anything that backs your opinion.
“Remarkably, a high-income person in the U.S. was more likely to report financial barriers than a low-income person in nearly all the other countries surveyed: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K.
Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia were the top performers overall. In the middle of the pack were the U.K., Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, and France. Switzerland and Canada ranked lower than those countries, although both still performed much better than the U.S.”
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/pre...countries-many