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The United States breaks the link between wealth and health, and that is the bad basin for the healthcare chapter. Part I's expectation is explicit: if economic growth creates and sustains better health outcomes, the most prosperous country should be among the healthiest and should keep improving. The 2019 JAMA finding is that United States life expectancy increased from 1959 to 2014, with the rate of increase greatest in 1969 to 1979, slowing thereafter, losing pace with other high-income countries, plateauing in 2011 and decreasing after 2014. A country can get richer and die younger, so economic growth alone is not indicative of better health outcomes.
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losing pace with other high-income countries, plateauing in 2011, and decreasing after 2014\.”[^166] This trend suggests that economic growth alone is not indicative of better health outcomes. Instead, the relationship between economic growth and societal health is more complicated. Historically,
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