Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicine

# Political Beliefs and Health: A Growing Gap A new study finds that conservatives are dying at significantly higher rates than liberals, with the gap widening sharply since 2020—not because of politics itself, but because conservatives have increasingly lost trust in doctors and the medical system, leading them to avoid or delay necessary care.
Your politics could be making you ill, and conservatives are dying at significantly higher rates than liberals, according to a recent study in Nature. Over the past decade, a health gap has emerged in the United States. While extensive research has examined how factors like income and education s
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