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Pretty sad but true...

States' politics ' and their resulting policies ' are shaving years off American lives.
Today, people in the South and Midwest, regions controlled by Republican state legislators,
have increasingly higher chances of dying prematurely compared with those in the more Democratic Northeast and West.

Example: Roughly 1 in 5 Ohioans will die before they turn 65.
Many of the state's public health outcomes are a direct result of political decisions, differences in Medicaid and safety net funding,
as well as tobacco taxes and highway safety laws between Ohio and its neighbors.
Republicans' stranglehold on the legislature, after defying repeated court orders to redraw state voting maps,
has protected those politicians from the consequences of their votes.

Ohioans have a similar life expectancy to residents of Slovakia and Ecuador, relatively poor countries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/...

Alas, I cannot login there.

Can you provide a comparison for a blue state similar to Ohio? If 20% of Ohioans die before 65, how many Illinoisans would? (For example.) By itself that number sounds bad, but without a comparison, we can't really know. If it's 18% of Illinoisans, that's not a big difference. If it's 5%, that is HUGE.

<Alas, I cannot login there. Can you provide a comparison for a blue state similar to Ohio?>

The article doesn't include a direct comparison of early deaths between states, if focuses mostly on life expectancies.
Here are some life expectancy numbers by state...

Mississippi 71.9
Ohio 75.3
Illinois 76.8
NY 77.7
Minnesota 79.1
California 79

And here's the full list:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/life_exp...

Lastly, here is another article, with similar findings, you should be able to access this one...

"A growing mortality gap between Republican and Democratic areas may largely stem from policy choices."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-...

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