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by robocat 74 days ago
> shorter life expectancies

It is a fallacy that US health systems cause that. Lifestyle preventatives are far more important than acute healthcare. Exercise, food, and accidental deaths matter.

The main exception in other countries is that a high average lifetime is highly dependent on babies and young children surviving.

Good healthcare helps lifetimes, but other factors dominate early deaths.