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Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?
- LatteLazy 6y agoInequality.
- atlasunshrugged 6y agotl;dr: We're fatter, have worse health care, are more likely to kill ourselves (usually with guns), there is more violence, and more drug related deaths.
- simonblack 6y agoThe US median person is not rich. Even the US average person is not particularly rich, especially in PPP. The very few rich multi-billionaires skew the figures so much that it looks like the US is rich. A country with 50 million people on food stamps (and that was before the Covid era) is not rich.