>there's very little public policy value in that That's incredibly myopic and would point to a massively flawed system if that's true. It's incredibly valuable

>there's very little public policy value in that That's incredibly myopic and would point to a massively flawed system if that's true. It's incredibly valuable for public policy on both ends of the political spectrum to know if certain demographics are dying much sooner than others. A single national average is about as useless as you can get unless your goal is to bemoan the decline of the US or highlight how much better one nation is than another.