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Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson
Episode: Americans Die Younger Than People in Any Other Rich Country. Why?
Description: Today’s episode is about guns, drugs, cars, and a big question: Why do Americans die so much younger than people in any other rich country?Before the 1990s, average life expectancy in the U.S. was not much different than it was in western Europe: Germany, France, the U.K. But since the 1990s, something very strange and clearly bad has happened. Americans got much richer than Europeans. But American life spans have fallen behind those of Europeans so dramatically that today, the typical American has the same healthy life expectancy as someone in the poorest to...