However the socioeconomic class of the neighborhood as per the linked graphs depend on employment status not hospital bills, and thats constant across US, UK, e

However the socioeconomic class of the neighborhood as per the linked graphs depend on employment status not hospital bills, and thats constant across US, UK, etc. For example. Take a senior airline captain. Toward the end of their career they're almost as well paid as us IT people, maybe 90th percentile. That relies on a 1st class med cert, updated every six months. The day after you fail, you're unemployed (more or less). Suddenly his income, and inevitably his neighborhoods social class, starts dropping. Perhaps he works in an office as a clerk. Optimistically maybe 50% percentile income. But he didn't fail that med cert for fun, its because of developing heart disease. Now you can pretend to be surprised a 50th percentile file clerk has a lower life expectancy (due to his heart disease) than a 90th percentile airline captain. But its not an elaborate conspiracy. Its just that higher income jobs assume health. Its even worse, in that most employers have low tolerance for employee illness, but even lower tolerance for employee family member illness. A mother who's kid has some terrible disease is much more likely to get poorer and downwardly mobile, than the opposite. Shouldda started that startup, but dad was dying of cancer at that time, and kids of cancer victims tend to become cancer victims, so "mysteriously" lower income people seem to be at higher risk of cancer. Not to forget the destructive effects of mental illness on employability in stereotypical higher income jobs.