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The best-practice life expectancy frontier rose about three years every decade between 1840 and 2002, and Part I calls the consistency surprising. That linearity is the strongest single fact in the health material, because a straight line over 160 years through war, antibiotics, vaccines and sanitation suggests the gains are not driven by any one intervention. Part I then says the trend may be coming to an end, which is the claim that matters for the healthcare chapter and the one it does least to establish.
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rising around three years every decade.[^165] However, this trend may be coming to an end. The United States is the most developed and economically prosperous country in the world. If economic growth creates and sustains better health out
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