And yet, despite all of our expenditures on health care twice as much as other countries, our life expectancy is significantly lower. But there is something that is even uglier than that, and that is The gap between the very rich and the working class in terms of life expectancy is close to ten years. All right, think about it. If you are very rich in America, you will live as long as people in Europe or Japan. If you're working class, you will die ten years younger. (37:31–37:41)
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Asserts a ten-year life expectancy gap between the rich and working class in the U.S.
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