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.

When you look around the world, you see maybe not like a hugely surprising list of countries

at the top of the list.

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