This #LifeExpectancy chart is pretty stark.

“"Oh, we can't have anything but an American solution to these issues – we can't listen to other countries."

"International studies are not the flavor of the month – they never will be," says [John] Haaga [a retired director at the NIH]. "The problem with foreign countries is that they're not in someone's congressional district."”

npr.org/sections/health-shots/