PNHP note: The following article was updated in an article with the same title in Social Justice Solutions in December 2016. You can view the updated article here.

By F. Douglas Stephenson
Health News Florida, Sept. 8, 2014

By F. Douglas Stephenson | Health News Florida
One reliable indicator of health care quality in any nation is life expectancy. Unfortunately, life expectancy in the United States ranks in the bottom quartile of a list of 229 industrialized nations, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.