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What is to be done about the US death crisis?

What is to be done about the US death crisis?

A vital statistic has been flashing bright red for decades

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Sep 08, 2022
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Adam Tooze and Edward Luce have rightly drawn attention to the unattended health crisis in America. Tooze notes that the Chinese can now expect to live longer than Americans; not just because Chinese life expectancy continues to grow, but more alarmingly because US life expectancy has been falling in absolute terms — an “extraordinary and shameful fact.…

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