Torillian said:
https://www.pnas.org/content/106/41/17290 And here's an article about how the great depression didn't affect mortality other than suicides increasing, but overall deaths were actually down and population health was up. It makes intuitive sense to say that economic turmoil could cause more deaths than Covid, and that's why leaders who don't want to deal with this pandemic like to repeat that claim over and over again but I've yet to see evidence of such a claim. |
Actually, outpatient growth is increasing significantly over the years. Since people don't have as much money to pay their hospital bills, hospitals end up cuttings costs/resources which mean they can't keep up with the in demand of patients with limited resource. You also have to remember most hospitals are non profit so they don't have a lot of money to back themselves up in this crisis.
Lastly, people are more inclined to not go to a hospital when they need to which in return might kill them or make the situation way worse and end up costing the hospital more money and more time.
Also, the death rate increase in homicide too during great recession.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/a-recession-is-coming-what-it-could-mean-for-healthcare.html
"Violent crime rates may have risen at first during the Depression (in 1933, nationwide homicide mortality rate hit a high for the century until that point, at 9.7 per 100,000 people) but the trend did not continue throughout the decade. As the economy showed signs of recovery in 1934-37, the homicide rate went down by 20 percent."
