Health care and welfare cuts in the United States have led to an increase in premature deaths. By the time COVID-19 hit, the U.S. was already seeing about 600,000 more deaths each year than its peer nations.
The study notes that “missing Americans” is a statistical construct that “cannot specify which deaths would have been averted, only the number that would have been averted if the United States had mortality rates of its peers.”
One of the most glaring systemic gaps is health coverage, and Bor said he was struck by how many people in the U.S. die earlier in life compared to other countries where health care is universal or heavily subsidized. The U.S. has public insurance programs that can provide health care for low-income adults and children, disabled people and the elderly, but not for hundreds of millions of adults under the age of 65.
The maelstrom of death and policy disputes that followed COVID-19 were a predictable result of decades of divestment in the health of the U.S. population. Bor said plenty of research has documented the disproportionate impact of the pandemic among frontline workers or Black and Native American people, for example, but white people in the U.S. are often the “reference category” in those studies that nonwhite demographics are compared to. However, that group — white Americans — accounts for the majority of “excess deaths” and is doing much worse relative to people living other countries.
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