The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So people laugh at the USA a great deal because of the fact that it sits at number something like 45 in the league table of longevity among the industrialized world, despite the fact that you guys spend far more per head on medical care than anybody else.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
while we spend about 18% of our GDP on healthare more than any other nation and yet we rank 55th in life expectancy