We’re in an era of concierge medicine. At a broad level, I suppose everyone in the country being disease free was more an aesthetic priority than anything with intrinsic economic value.
We have a partisan lean on life expectancy [1]. Maybe the win-win is for blue states to stop fiscally bailing out rural ones [2] and focus on improving their own governance.
We have a partisan lean on life expectancy [1]. Maybe the win-win is for blue states to stop fiscally bailing out rural ones [2] and focus on improving their own governance.
[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/01/america-li...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_taxation_and_spendin...