Yeah, but the the 74.7 years of the poor probably SEEMS longer than the 79.2 of the affluent.

The reasons behind this are pretty obvious, people who are not rich work and are exposed to all kinds of chemicals and working enviroments that Rich people would never see. After all have you ever seen a millionaire work on a coal mine for example, or work in a factory 60 hours a week ?

Most poor people take little or no vacation simply because they cannot afford it, the Rich have far more vacations and longer ones. Pretty simple why then the Rich live longer, not to mention the last reason having the money or the resources to top notch health care.

The government wants to fix this? Sure they do, it would mean having health care for everyone increasing wages and making companies even less competitive. I doubt they will change anything simply because it is not easily fixable like chainging a flat tire.

Well, this post about does it, right?

We can all now realize that income redistribution to the tune of 7 trillion dollars, Medicare, Medicaid, handicapped parking spaces, handicapped ramps, forced federal lunches (breakfasts, snacks & midnight basketball leagues) which were begun to offset starvation and now which "combat" obesity, as well as the Family Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and any other number of forced federal programs (entirely too numerous to list) to "equalize" all of us, have not & are not working.

Right?

Time to try different "solutions."

Reganomics shut down California in the 70's. Regonomics Via Greenspan shut down Social Security in the 80's. The (feds. central Bank) paid debts with our security,now we have to sweat it that some jerk in the white house, will get us cut off by changing the NEW DEAL. If anything is unamerican activitys, its canceling social security. About living longer; my sister died at 64 as a direct result of no meds for diabetic condition. I tried to get her to humbly go to the Lions Club for help, but her feeling of shame for being poor was to great. Thus she died for all advocates of socialised Med. It's a mystery to me how anyone can set by, and watch seniors suffer.

i love it when the rightwingers say our system gives us choice! How untrue, so much to be a vomit inducing lie. I pay $600 a month for private insurance and have to drive 18 miles to see the doctor my insurance company picked for me, passing by dozens of family care clinics on the way. I have to get approval for any type of specialized treatment, and the insurance company can and does say no. I live if fear that someone in my family will become seriously ill or have a bad accident, and we will lose our home because of it. But, hey, the insurance company executives will all make their million dollar bonus's, and to rightwingers, that is all that matters.

"After 20 years, the lowest socioeconomic group lagged further behind the most affluent."

Wow! Richer people live longer and have better access to medical care than poor people

The same group of genius researchers, finally confirmed that Earth revolved around the sun. And it only took a $10 million research grant, six double-blind studies and three trips to Hawaii for scientific conferences.

I wanna grant like that too!

This study is no surprise. The policies of new global order powers that be don't believe in the rights of all men to live with an economical fair shake let alone to a ripe old age. They'll pay to spead war and death, but not life or equality. Thus in order for the free western world to survive, an objective scientific community is going to have to study the human species the same way they do the animal kingdom. That is to say, we must look at might makes righter wrongdoers without top 1% political correctness.

Fact is, that the world is populated by human predator elitists with absolutely no compassion for their fellow man and no regard for the environment whatsoever. Other than this life, their money, power and control, they have no moral perspective on the big picture and support fascism as an agenda. They're Great White Sharks in the sea of mother earth. Such evil, selfish people must we weeded out before it's too late. This is already happening via natural selection. But it won't save the world from NeoCons.

It is said that 7 of the world's most weathiest people could themselves cure world hunger. That safer, cleaner, alternative bio fuel sources are easily within our technological grasp. That a system based on printing make believe money with no real value exposes funny money Fed debt that taxpayers are forced to subsidize. Given this scenario, it's not a stretch to pretend everyone has enough to live on. Yet a corrupt system endures as if the US will last forever and shit will never hit the fan. So I fear 2012.

Populism is the cure to the cancer of corporatism.

Too bad those fat cats in the GOP don't get it, Middle America built this country, and will always be necessary so they can keep those fat cats going, I guess their of the attitude of we've got ours, so like Cheney says, what about what 2/3 of the country says! And he says SO.

Consolation prize: America's rich still don't live as long as some of Europe's poor.

One very important reason so many of the poor and uneducated suffer more medical problems,complications and a shorter life span seems to be ,for the most part ignored,and that is so many of them are just plain dumb,even stupid!
I was born into a large poor uneducated poverty ridden family and find that some of my sibs and I have been able to live a long reasonably healthy life and our offspring also have.
One thing that is certain from experience,those of us who were able to rise above poverty because of our native intelegence,and access ourselves to the health care available have lived pretty long lives and successfuly overcame heath problems that inevitably occur to us all.
Also we and our offspring either quit or did not smoke at all,we avoided excesses,controlled the size of our families,and eqally important avoided out of wedlock births.
Those members of my large extended family that did not do these things,lived and still live just like the people descibed in the study.

We need to level the playing field. The rich should not be allowed to live any longer than the average life expectancy age of the poor. Think of all the jobs we could create in the business of, well, leveling the rich so they don't live longer than they should.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Without Life there is no Liberty and without Life and Liberty one cannot pursue happiness. However, the idea of Life in its basic form must include the access to affordable healthcare for all.

What's the point of being rich if you're not doing better, much better, than everyone else, in every conceivable measure of social success? This is a capitalistic society. It's the way things should be.

A gap of only 4.5 years isn't nearly enough. A billionaire ought to live 40-50 years longer than the poorest among us. And he ought to be in better shape at 80 than the average peon at 40, in a decent, capitalistic society. We need to get government off our backs and really let loose with this social Darwinism.

believe it or not Liberals, you are going to be the reason why Obama loses in November (or August if Hillary gets her way). You better start taking Obama to tasks before Conservative Talk Radio dose!