Across every demographic group, Americans die at younger ages than their counterparts in other wealthy nations. How could this happen? One group of researchers isn’t surprised at all.https://t.co/sdv6aHiEZh
— NPR (@NPR) March 26, 2023
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This is basically a 20-year gap. Wow. pic.twitter.com/4L37FdeVkj
— Steve Chernoski (@nsjersey) April 1, 2023
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At any given level of income, life expectancy in the US is *five years shorter* than in England. This is what a capitalist healthcare system buys you.
— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) April 4, 2023
And England is hardly stellar. More than a dozen countries have higher life expectancy than England with less GDP per capita. pic.twitter.com/Ik1ZMwMJnH
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Larry Summers claiming that declining US life expectancy “transcends politics” = a fundamental—and, itself, quite ideological—misprision of the word “politics.” This *is* politics, accomplished via policy, including policy that Summers has personally supported https://t.co/W5JujvL6md
— Martha Lincoln (@heavyredaction) April 1, 2023
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The result is that the US is the only developed country where even if you strip out all Covid deaths, life expectancy still dropped by a year since 2019 pic.twitter.com/HTCj0KNRgV
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 31, 2023