Milbank Quarterly include:• U.S. state policies since the 1980s have cut short American lives, particularly for women; • U.S.
life expectancy gains since 2010 would be 25 percent greater for women and 13 percent greater for men if states policies had not changed in the way they did, with many becoming more conservative; • Enacting more liberal state policies could raise U.S.
life expectancy by over 2 years, whereas enacting more conservative state policies could reduce it by 2 years; • In the greatest gap between states, residents in Connecticut outlive their counterparts in Oklahoma by as many as seven years.The study examined how state policy environments contributed to U.S.
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