Health is a mark of money in our time, when a longer life span can be bought. The rich of this country are living to be older and older now, while everyone else is dying younger. “Perhaps the starkest measure of the failure of our economic policies,” Binyamin Appelbaum writes, “is that the average American’s life expectancy is in decline, as inequalities of wealth have become inequalities of health.” Meanwhile, life remains the ultimate privilege, the living lording over the dead.
