"Those investments began to diverge sharply along red & blue lines, with conservative lawmakers often balking at public #health initiatives they said cost too much or overstepped. Today, people in the #South and #Midwest, regions largely controlled by #Republican state legislators, have increasingly higher chances of dying prematurely compared with those in the more #Democratic #Northeast and #West."
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