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> The average life expectancy in the US is about 78. In other first world nations it's almost unilaterally closer to 84.

It doesn’t help that (at least when it comes to healthcare) US is a dozen of different countries in a trench coat.

Life expectancy in richer states like California or New York is very close to that in Germany, the Netherlands, Britain etc. (and if adjusted for the massive disparity in drug related deaths they’d probably be closer to Italy, France or even Switzerland) while the poorest states are about on par with Eastern European countries where it’s barely above 75 years or so. So any average figure is semi meaningless.