Oh and when it comes to Life expectancy and Infant Mortality there are a couple things to note.
First countries Judge Infant Mortality different... and the US is one of the most "rightwing" in doing such.
Countries set different qualifiers on what counts as "Infant Mortality". If you give birth in France for example, if the baby isn't a certain length, and he dies it isn't counted towards infant mortality even though he was born alive.
Basically every country has exceptions like that... using length or weight because they want to judge how many babies live that should have lived.
The US doesn't have any such requirement. Any baby that takes a breath is counted under infant mortality, instead just being a count of how many live babies die. Adjusted for other countries factors, the US Infant mortality rate is at the same level as other developed countries.
Not sure how that effects the US, or stress, or for that matter our huge incarceration rate, culture in general etc..
It's worth noting that given equal healthcare services outcomes vary WIDELY. Due to a number of factors unrelated to health, and sometimes even the economy.
Although the field of economics and helping the poor get healthy food is showing to possibly be helpful... for there eventual children. As it seems there is a form of "Genetic Memory" that actually exists! Where fat people's kids are more likely to be fat... not by hardwritten genes, but by something in the way they ate carrying over through genetics....
I forget exactly how... too lazy to look up the research paper right now.
Although, actually recent healthcare research suggests that wealth doesn't actually effect obesity. Or rather, not in the way we expect. Being poor doesn't make you fat... but it will make you MORE fat.
The Poor aren't disproportionatly obese, but they are disproporrtionatly morbidly obese.
It's hard to figure out what the right fix is to motivate more people to eat healthy.
