Great piece.

“Your health is only 10 percent influenced by the medical environment and maybe 20 or 30 percent in behavioral choices. The social and political determinants of health are overwhelmingly what you’re seeing in these maps.”

"If you compare the poorest category of counties in (completely urbanized) New Netherland to the richest ones in Deep South, the former has a 0.4-year advantage in life expectancy."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/01/america-life-expectancy-regions-00113369

#AmericanNations #USHealth #LifeExpectancy #Policy

What is "real self-care?" Why bubble baths can't always cut it : #ushealth #uspol
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/14/1170063872/self-care-laid-bare

Biden warns of #MAGA #Republicans' desire to cut spending

President #JoeBiden is aiming to use the leadup to the release of his proposed budget next week to sketch a dire picture of what could happen to #USHealth care if congressional Republicans had their way with federal spending.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-united-states-government-health-care-costs-us-republican-party-virginia-beach-5ad7023eed12a6297c8bccf58979f285

U.S. Life Expectancy Fell to Lowest Level Since 1996

Covid-19 and opioid overdoses contributed to a 5% rise in death rate last year

#UShealthfacts
#ushealth

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-life-expectancy-fell-to-lowest-level-since-1996-11671667059