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This is an important point. Americans need to take all the pairs of rose tinted glasses they have off and see that they're not stacking up that well to many oth
by superchroma 4y ago
This is an important point. Americans need to take all the pairs of rose tinted glasses they have off and see that they're not stacking up that well to many other countries on numerous dimensions. It's not sufficient to gesture to prices of retail goods and say things are fine, because those prices have totally cratered in the last few years.
- ModernMech 4y agoI think this map makes very clear that there are certain regions where life expectancy is much worse than others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_life_expectancy#/media/File:Life_Expectancy_by_county_in_2018.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... There's a strong correlation between state life expectancy and whether that state has embraced the ACA expansion of Medicaid as well: https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/ https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-med...