Part I states the healthcare chapter's bad basin in one sentence: a scenario in which the vast majority are absolutely better off because of economic growth, yet if a significant percentage of the value is captured by the top 1 percent, that growth produces a net decrease in life satisfaction and health. Growth is not merely insufficient in this account, it is capable of being self-defeating, because the distribution of the gains is itself an input to health. The claim is sharpened by Woolf: the price paid in health for not being on the top rung is getting more dire, so the stakes of position are rising rather than stable.

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if a significant percentage of the value is captured by the top 1%, economic growth can result in a net decrease in life satisfaction and health. While the problems that have resulted in a reversal of US life expectancy trends are especially pronounced in the US, they are not c

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