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America Is Suddenly Getting Healthier. No One Knows Why.
Celebrating a nice-looking chart is much easier than understanding exactly what is making the line change direction.
The U.S. has more fatalities from gun violence, drug overdoses, and auto accidents than just about any other similarly rich nation, and its obesity rate is about 50 percent higher than the European average. One creative explanation, from Bloomberg ’s Justin Fox, is that Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan sent hundreds of billions of dollars to governors and mayors, which allowed them to increase law-enforcement spending to crack down on both violent criminals and out-of-control drivers. On the other side, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is deeply skeptical of technology —as varied as nuclear power plants and the polio vaccine—and he has stressed that “lifestyle” is the more important determinant of health.
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