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LeadPipeCinche posted...

I'm calling bullshit on rich people live longer than poor people.

A bunch of rich people have died over the last 5 years from cancer (black panther actor). Guarantee he had way better insurance than I do. I survived my battle with cancer (during Covid) , he didn't.

This is a study that was done between 2001-2014 that showed in the United States people with higher incomes on average lived longer than people with low incomes. Obviously individual cases are going to vary but the study showed a life expectancy gap and that over the course the study the gap appeared to be widening.

One thing it notes in the results is that the gap in life expectancy varies a lot between different regions. In some parts of the country the rich generally don't live much longer than the poor but in other parts they tend to live significantly longer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/

Since you mentioned covid, here's a recent study that was looking at covid mortality rates in the U.S. by income level. What it found is it depended on whether the state was a Medicaid-expansion state. In states that are, the mortality rates from covid were similar across all income levels. In non-Medicare-expansion states, the mortality rates were generally higher among low income residents versus high income.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9371257/