[lbo-talk] Life expectancy in the US

[Andy]

Don't miss the graphic:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/life-expectancy-map/?wpisrc=xs_sl_0001

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/life-expectancy-in-the-us-varies-widely-by-region-and-in-some-places-is-decreasing/2011/06/13/AGdHuZVH_story.html

Large swaths of the United States are showing decreasing or stagnating
life expectancy even as the nation’s overall longevity trend has
continued upwards, according to a county-by-county study of life
expectancy over two decades.

In one-quarter of the country, girls born today may live shorter lives
than their mothers, and the country as a whole is falling behind other
industrialized nations in the march toward longer life, according to
the study.

[....]

What surprised Murray and his team was that despite increased
consciousness about disparities and per capita spending on health care
that is at least 50 percent higher than European countries, the United
States is falling farther behind them with each passing year.

“My expectation was that in the last decade we would at least be
keeping up in terms of the pace of progress. But that’s not what’s
happening,” said Murray.

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Andy