Is it acceptable that how long people live depends on where they live?

Since 2017 John has called it unacceptable that lifespan depends on where people live; from 2023 he focused on tuberculosis, curable since the 1950s yet killing over a million people a year. Hank agrees, saying since 2021 that access to health care should be fair and that deaths from undiagnosed cancer don't have to happen.

Axis: acceptable, natural variation ... unacceptable, should be closed

Concept: health equity

Positions by date: 53 records in 53 videos. The position did not change in these records.

John

date	how	position	video
2017-05-09	first on record	John says the growing life expectancy discrepancy is not normal or natural; we need not accept lifespan varying by where you live, yet in the US it is getting worse.	Your Neighborhood, Your Life Expectancy 00:03:05
2018-01-23	restate	John is totally unconvinced that these problems are not our problems or that Sierra Leone's health system should be fixed entirely within Sierra Leone.	On Emergencies 00:01:29
2018-11-27	restate	John says those children did not really die of malaria, usually treatable with more robust health systems, but because the weak suffer what they must.	On The Melian Dialogue 00:02:26
2019-10-22	restate	John says it is unacceptable that thousands of women will die in childbirth in Sierra Leone this year (2019) and thousands more of treatable illnesses, and we don't have to accept it.	Why We're Donating $6,500,000 00:07:13
2020-01-28	restate	John says most mothers who die in childbirth there die for want of an ambulance ride, a blood transfusion or an emergency C-section: these deaths are preventable and have been for decades.	Looking Away (Again) 00:02:20
2020-11-17	restate	Almost all of those deaths are preventable with a strong health system: women die every day for want of an emergency C-section, a blood transfusion or blood pressure medication.	Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update 00:01:27
2021-02-02	restate	We also choose to accept a world where, on average, the poorest people die 30 years before the richest.	I Predicted the Pandemic (over and over and over again) 00:03:24
2022-01-04	restate	John says the Kayima clinic's conditions dramatically increase the risks for mother and child, and it simply doesn't have to be this way.	After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING 00:07:01
2022-02-22	restate	Paul was never satisfied with progress amid such injustice and we shouldn't be either: health-care access and justice cannot wait, and his partners will carry his legacy forward.	On the Death of My Hero 00:02:55
2022-05-17	restate	John says the question is not whether someone should have expected a pregnancy but whether someone should be able to expect to survive pregnancy.	Reasons Not to Care 00:02:55
2022-06-21	restate	John says there is nothing natural about people dying of cholera in Haiti but not in the United States.	On Disease 00:01:56
2023-01-03	restate	John wants to keep advocating for global health equity and better funding for health care systems in 2023.	TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH 00:01:56
2023-03-14	restate	John says 1.6 million people will die of tuberculosis this year (2023), not for lack of understanding or cures, but because of inequitable access to health care, impoverishment and other injustice.	The Seduction of Despair 00:00:55
2023-03-28	restate	John asks whether Robert David really died of TB or of poverty and systems that do not act as if all human lives are equally valuable.	My Tuberculosis Reading List 00:02:26
2023-05-02	restate	John says these deaths are simply not acceptable, and also that we don't have to accept them.	GOOD NEWS 00:01:27
2023-05-09	restate	John says it is equally true that there should have been a hospital here many decades ago.	on hope 00:03:28
2023-06-27	restate	John says a big thing both learned about cancer is how unequal access to treatment is, in the US and rich countries and especially between rich and poorer countries.	Alone on the Cancer Boat: A Vlogbrothers Reunion 00:05:44
2023-07-11	restate	John says all human lives are equally valuable, and it is completely unacceptable that people will die this year (2023) of a curable disease.	Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson 00:01:27
2023-07-18	restate	John says tuberculosis is ultimately caused by crowded living conditions, malnutrition and other symptoms of poverty, which he calls the world's leading cause of death.	Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse 00:04:22
2023-08-15	restate	John says none of that should require extraordinary efforts: Henry should never have become so sick, cost his mother her savings, missed years of school, or been denied bedaquiline because of where he was born.	Henry 00:06:16
2023-09-12	restate	John says Danaher's prices should acknowledge that GeneXpert tests are publicly funded public goods, not means to enrich the world's richest at the expense of the poorest.	Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid 00:05:04
2023-09-14	restate	John says the core disagreement with Danaher and Cepheid is that a tool the neediest can't use is not useful; citing Dr. Peter Mugyenyi on HIV drugs, he says medicine fails unless it both invents and distributes treatments. · also in: EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS	Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES 00:20:05
2023-09-27	restate	John tells the UN that TB today is in the same situation: the cure is where the disease is not, and the disease is where the cure is not.	John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? 00:03:33
2023-10-17	restate	For John, writing about tuberculosis is a way to understand historical and contemporary inequities: the toll of a disease the rich world ignores resulted from historical forces and TB's own quirks.	My Next Book 00:02:47
2023-10-24	restate	John says Hank made clear in that first call that the same cancer in two people in different circumstances is not really the same cancer: different standards of care mean different outcomes.	A Tale of Two Cancers 00:04:00
2023-12-19	restate	John calls it unacceptable that 200,000 people will die of drug-resistant TB this year (2023), most never able to get one of the molecular tests because there aren't enough.	End of a Rough Year 00:03:40
2024-03-12	restate	John says we can't afford not to implement comprehensive STP strategies in high-burden communities: there is no excuse for over a million people a year dying of a curable disease.	How We End TB 00:03:21
2024-03-19	restate	John says comprehensive care has long been seen as too expensive or complicated for poor countries, an insane situation where a TB cure exists but doesn't reach the places it is needed.	Our $80,000,000 Bet 00:00:58
2024-06-18	restate	John finds it infuriating that the world's deadliest infectious disease still kills over a million people a year though curable.	The Tea 00:05:21
2024-10-22	restate	John says tuberculosis has been curable since the 1950s, yet over a million people die every year of a disease we know how to prevent and cure, which he calls insane.	My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis 00:00:58
2024-10-30	restate	Answering a viewer who asks them to punch tuberculosis in the face, John says that if there were a lot of tuberculosis in the US, it would be dealt with.	Sipping the Tea with Hank 00:09:35
2025-02-25	restate	John says we know how to live in a world without tuberculosis, but we choose not to.	EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS 00:05:43
2025-03-25	restate	John recalls that when Hank got Hodgkin lymphoma he said it has a 93% cure rate for those who can access treatment and a 20-70% cure rate in low- and middle-income countries.	Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday 00:03:24
2025-04-15	restate	John says that because TB has been curable since the 1950s, its cause can no longer really be said to be Mycobacterium tuberculosis; on some level the cause is us.	Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? 00:20:07
2025-05-06	restate	John says TB and other diseases of injustice do not strike randomly: they follow the paths of injustice and inequity that humans blaze.	Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima 00:03:24
2025-10-28	restate	John says Guimaras is not a special hotspot: TB is rampant throughout much of the world even though we know how to cure it.	Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway 00:03:24
2025-11-04	restate	John says we instead build systems where his brother can receive cutting-edge curative cancer care while for others the same diagnosis is a death sentence.	The Real Question 00:03:53
2025-11-11	restate	John says over a million people die every year from tuberculosis, though almost all could be saved by a drug regimen costing less than $300, which he calls bonkers.	John's Annual Psychophysical Decline 00:02:35
2025-11-13	restate	John says in the US he would be offered TPT without problem if a relative got TB, but not in many high-burden countries like Indonesia, which reveals problems we face as a world.	Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders 00:10:49
2025-11-25	restate	John says TB persists partly because it is hard to cure but mostly because we've failed to build systems that treat all human beings as equal, as Isatu's absence reminded him.	Poverty Is Expensive 00:05:50
2026-02-14	restate	John thinks people who want to live forever are confused about what it would mean: with health-care injustice already so bad, some living forever while others die at 80 would be far worse.	Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! 00:55:27
2026-02-24	restate	John calls this unconscionable and unacceptable, but says addressing the crisis is risky.	Risk Is a Privilege 00:03:24
2026-03-17	restate	John says the story shows the strange incentives in creating vaccines for poor countries' diseases when they conflict with health problems of wealthy countries, whose governments can spend lots on vaccines.	Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles 00:02:26
2026-03-24	restate	John says tuberculosis has been curable since the 1950s but still kills over a million people a year because of failures of human-built systems.	How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis 00:00:00
2026-04-28	restate	John calls it a blessing to stand at a world-class facility in a place too long deemed unworthy of one, knowing the community fought to build it and will fight to maintain it.	What I Can't Show You 00:06:05
2026-09-08	restate	John says those benefits have been unjustly distributed.	The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die 00:04:52

Hank

date	how	position	video
2021-02-12	first on record	Hank says access to food, water, health care, housing and education should be fair, and it is not.	Doing Better 00:00:28
2023-09-15	restate	Hank says because TB is the deadliest infectious disease, hits poor communities, and kills millions a year while disabling more, the tests' cost must be as low as possible, especially for multidrug-resistant TB.	The Worst Disease in Human History 00:04:22
2023-11-10	restate	Hank says it just shouldn't be that way, and people are working hard to change it.	My Final Chemo Secret 00:02:50
2023-12-08	restate	Hank says some people on Earth today live the reality of the US 80 years ago, and we don't have to live in a world like that.	Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life? 00:05:59
2024-10-25	restate	Hank says people dying of undiagnosed cancer for lack of a test doesn't have to be this way.	I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… 00:03:24
2025-11-10	restate	The second component is how justly or unjustly those tools are distributed, from tuberculosis to cancer treatment to new ways to unblock blocked blood vessels.	My Cancer Treatment was Not Cutting Edge 00:04:50
2026-05-08	restate	Hank notes that health care is not equally distributed: some places have much higher Hodgkin death rates, and in some diagnosis is unlikely.	My Deathday 00:04:22