U.S. death rates show how politics are affecting public health - STAT
▻https://www.statnews.com/2022/06/07/us-death-rates-politicization-public-health
[…] many Republican states have resisted Medicaid expansion, and decisions like this and a general underinvestment in public health by Republican governors might be the reason behind the growing Democratic-Republican mortality gap.
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As a researcher, I often ask myself “What’s next?” after publishing a study. But I must confess to feeling a little nihilistic this time around: Will this study change minds, or will it become just another projectile in the broader partisan slugfest this country is trapped in? Odds are that most politicians and their most passionate supporters are so locked into their tribes that no amount of data will make them reconsider their positions, even if those very positions are proving to be self-destructive.