, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract COVID. We construct comparable measures of the incidence of the COVID …, and political factors (but not health-policy related factors) we find that fatalities at 100 days since onset are 1 ….3 % higher in a US state than in an EU country. The US/EU gap disappears when we take account of health-policy related factors …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply …

virus (HCV) treatment and put the US on a path to eliminating hepatitis C. Our objective was to project the health benefits … years. These benefits in improved health will save $18.1 billion in direct healthcare spending, of which $13.3 billion would … accrue to the federal government. Over 20 years, the health benefits would increase by more than 2-fold and cost savings by 3 …