Americans die younger in states run by conservatives, study finds

American life expectancy as a whole is lower than in most high-income countries, ‘fall[ing] between … Cuba and Albania’. Photograph: Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty Images

Americans die younger in conservative states than in those governed by liberals, a new study has found.

The authors wrote: “Simulations indicate that changing all policy domains in all states to a fully liberal orientation might have saved 171,030 lives in 2019, while changing them to a fully conservative orientation might have cost 217,635 lives.”