Last year I wrote about why Portugal (despite spending a fraction of what the U.S. does and is one of Europe’s poorer countries) has such a higher longevity rate. This is hard to wrap our heads around but we need to.
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Benjy Renton
A blockbuster study from Irene Papanicolas and colleagues linking wealth to mortality.
- At every US wealth level., mortality rates were higher than Europe's
- The wealthiest Americans have a survival rate similar to the poorest northern/western Europeans
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
- At every US wealth level., mortality rates were higher than Europe's
- The wealthiest Americans have a survival rate similar to the poorest northern/western Europeans
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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