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Life Expectancy Growth: U.S. vs. the World

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Despite spending the highest on health care costs per capita in the world, the United States’ life expectancy growth rate has been surpassed by many other developed countries. This raises a couple questions about the state of health. Could this trend correlate with the for-profit health care system that exists here in the U.S., or be because of the growing economic gap that exists between American upper and lower classes?

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