Poor Healthcare means Poor People: Why Poor Healthcare is contributing to #deathsofdespair
A newly published analysis of more than half a century of federal mortality data found an alarming increase in death rates among young people and people in midlife. The focus of the declining life expectancy in America has mostly been on the plight of rural white Americans dying from \u2018deaths of despair\u2019 or drug overdoses, alcoholism, and suicide.
\nBut while this study shows that people in midlife across all ethnicities are dying from deaths of despair, what it also shows is America\u2019s glaringly flawed healthcare system: medical conditions like heart disease, strokes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease also contributed tot he increasing death rate.
\nIs America truly at a healthcare disadvantage compared to other wealthy, first world nations?
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