[dan-robertson]

The article suggests that wealthier subsets of the populations live longer in other wealthy countries than America and wealthy Americans generally do have access to healthcare[1]. And immigrants to the US also live particularly long so maybe they are wealthy and get good healthcare or maybe there’s something else to it.

The article also suggests some issues may be due to the way cities in the US are laid out which doesn’t really result from some kind of corporate propaganda or conspiracy, but then Canadian cities are quite similarly laid out.

It seems like a pretty messy nuanced topic that can’t be reduced to single US policies.

[1] perhaps their wealthy groups were eg 80%ile of the population by wealth and biased differently due to how people make money in different countries, or perhaps you need a smaller group for wealthy Americans to perform better, or perhaps they picked some dollar threshold so the American group was proportionally poorer or broader as America is richer in general. I don’t really know how that comparison was made though.