The David Pakman show is off today in observance of the federal New Year's Day holiday,

which fell on a Sunday, so observed on Monday. Of course, we will be back tomorrow to kick off 2023

with a bang and a pow and a ping. All of it, all the noises. Enjoy this classic episode today.

Hope it was a great New Year.

A very interesting new study finds that Americans on average die younger in conservative and red states.

Now, this won't be a surprise to some of you who know some of the underlying data here,

but let's start with the study is reported by the Guardian, more liberal policies on environment,

gun safety, labor, economic taxes, and tobacco taxes associated with lower mortality.

The authors of the study write simulations indicate that changing all policy domains in all states

to a fully liberal orientation could have saved over 171,000 lives in 2019, changing to a fully

conservative orientation could cost more than 217,000 lives. The study was published in

plus, plus one, plus one PLOS one. I always forget how it's pronounced, which is a science journal.

The authors are from Syracuse University Harvard, VCU, University of Washington,

University of Texas at Austin, and University of Western Ontario, Canada. I have to tell you,

this really isn't surprising. There is a very interesting metric. And when we talk about the

United States, sometimes it's said, well, the United States could really be divvied up

into six different regions that would be as big as many European countries, or 12 different

regions I have seen. There is a metric called the human development index. This metric takes into

account health, education, income, and life expectancy to give us a number essentially below zero

and one, one being very high and zero being very low. And when you look around the world, you see

maybe not like a hugely surprising list of countries at the top of the list. So for example,

countries with a very, very high HDI human development index, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland,

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