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America is a much larger country with a much larger difference in outcome between different people.

A person in South Carolina will have a different life from someone in say Santa Barbara, California.

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> America is a much larger country with a much larger difference in outcome between different people.

Chart us against the entire OECD, then. The results are stark.

https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low

All I'm saying is pooling the entire United States into a single data point is fairly useless. We need to know which demographics are the ones bringing down the average the most in order to make moves that will improve this metric the most.

It’s not useless because we are comparing countries. By breaking up a country you are basically changing the question to get a more favorable answer.

Everybody gets that richer states get better LE.

But you're governed by one federal government, so this point isn't so relevant.

If America had a government and voting populace that actually cared about each other and weren't afraid to have universal free healthcare, we wouldn't see the problems that exist within the data?

America is a pretty fake place.

Shall we disallow comparisons between the USA and individual European countries as well since they're governed by the EU?

West Virginia's problems are West Virginia's problems and have no effect on anyone living a perfectly wonderful life in California.

California’s taxes pay for West Virginia problems.

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxe...

The US life expectancy has taken a nose dive in the last couple of years which other countries have not experienced.

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