According to recent research, even rich Americans are less healthy than their English counterparts. Americans have higher rates of diabetes, heart disease, strokes, lung disease, and cancer regardless of education or income level. This is happening even though U.S. health care spending is double that spent on English citizens.
"Everybody should be discussing it: Why isn't the richest country in the world the healthiest country in the world?" asks study co-author Dr. Michael Marmot, an epidemiologist at University College London. The study appears in today's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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