This is fascinating - on the one hand yeah, it’s a tragedy to have the same life expectancy after a friggin century of modern medicine, but on the other, the US life expectancy was already way ahead even in 1900. In Eastern Europe we only started seeing US’s southern states’ 1900 numbers in the 80s and 90s.
Looks like the standard result - outcomes are worst in Republican states, and best in Democrat states.
Well, every republican idea is a bad one so that follows.
You’d think the Republican problem, given 100 years of low life expectancy in Republican run states, would have self-resolved by now.
Two words: electoral college.
Oklahoma actually went down in life expectancy. Super interesting to me. Thanks for sharing
I wonder if there is a correlation with percentage of a state’s population in large cities.
Even today, there is huge difference in Texas between the metro regions, like Houston, and counties far away. With the further away a county the lower the life expectancy.
Houston has the same life expectancy as Hawaii, but not so much a hundred miles away from Houston
Link to the full study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2833159
I was just looking at life expetency and Colorado was in the top three and it was the wealthiest counties (think Aspen) that had the highest rankings. The way traditional life expetency is measured has a heavy correlation between wealth and how long you live. This study appears to be different?
