Why is life expectancy in the United States so bad?
It seems perverse to be richer than these other countries but falling behind in something as basic as “not dying.”
Everything is simple when you're posting 240 characters on Twitter. There's no effect from drugs, obesity, poor minorities, homelessness, suicide, homicide, disproportionate incidence of COVID, and a million other things?
That's part of why we are behind. But we've lacked universal healthcare for a long time.
Skyrocketing obesity and deaths of despair including suicide and overdoses are the reason for the shift and single payer healthcare or an NHS like system are only a partial solution.
