Anne Case: "The pandemic may open a door to health reform in the US"

Anne Case at her Princeton home in February 2020. Leeor Wild / The Canvas Agency

White working-class Americans are killing themselves out of desperation.

In the last 20 years, suicides, deaths from cirrhosis or from overdoses (of legal and illegal drugs) of uneducated whites have skyrocketed.

Given its relative weight in the population as a whole (65 out of the 330 million total), life expectancy in the United States has fallen for three consecutive years ...

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