Nova Scholar Steve Woolf‘s new article in Health Affairs ties the declining U.S. life expectancy with policy choices, suggesting that U.S. health disadvantages are a matter of choice. “Dozens of large democracies have demonstrated sustained success in achieving higher life expectancy, better education, and less poverty, despite having less wealth than the United States. The US health disadvantage persists not for lack of policy solutions but for lack of political will.”
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