WSJ: Americans are living shorter, sicker lives than people in other high-income countries

Still waiting for all that Obamacare to kick in and fix all this shit.

Much of the gap in life expectancy is due to deaths among working-age adults, says Dr. Steven Woolf, a life-expectancy researcher at the Virginia Commonwealth University. “Americans die earlier and are sicker than people in other high-income countries,” he said. “This has been true for a long time, and the trend is getting worse.”

Some Americans die earlier and are sicker than people in other high-income countries.

We did it, reddit!

Yeah that's what the absence of a social democracy (even a failing one) does