In the terms of drinking, smoking, and obesity, they in fact do. That's the real world you live in. We already do have healthcare programs for the bottom 1%,

In the terms of drinking, smoking, and obesity, they in fact do. That's the real world you live in. We already do have healthcare programs for the bottom 1%, like Medicaid. A better analysis would be to compare the overall population variance in life span, between different countries or years. This gives a direct measurement of how unequal life outcomes are, instead of being affected by the way the economy sorts people into wealth brackets.