• Every single U.S. state saw increasing rates of avoidable deaths from 2009-2019, while most comparable countries improved their rates during the same period.
• Despite spending twice as much on healthcare as other developed nations, the U.S. shows no correlation between higher healthcare spending and better health outcomes.
• Most of America’s increasing death rates came from preventable causes rather than treatable ones, with drug-related deaths accounting for 71% of the rise in deaths from external causes.

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