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.

washingtonpost.com - Republican politics south midwest life expectancy