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Undernews is the online report of the Progressive Review, edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington during all or part of one quarter of America's presidencies and edited alternative journals since 1964. The Review, which has been on the web since 1995, is now published from Freeport, Maine. See main page for full contents

November 9, 2009

U.S. RANKS 42ND IN LIFE EXPECTANCY

Guardian, UK - Despite spending $230m an hour on healthcare, Americans live shorter lives than citizens of almost every other developed country. And while it has the second-highest income per head in the world, the United States ranks 42nd in terms of life expectancy.

These are some of the startling conclusions from a major new report which attempts to explain why the world's number-one economy has slipped to 12th place - from 2nd in 1990- in terms of human development.

11/09/2009

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm sure it doesn't help our statistics that such a high percentage of our population consists of people who arrive here as adult refugees from countries with a very poor living standard, but add their truncated life-spans to our mortality statistics.

November 10, 2009 9:57 PM  

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