ABSTRACT
The health prescription Americans need will not come from doctors. Extreme inequality and the lack of support for early life is the affliction present. Social expenditures on early life, family support, childhood education, housing support, and other social policy areas produce health benefits. Successful examples include Scandinavian countries. Japan became the healthiest nation due to policies after World War II led by the American occupation. Inequality was drastically reduced, Japan was forbidden to have a military, and a public health clause was put into the constitution we wrote for that nation. It is tested medicine and could be prescribed here. We must measure what matters, our health compared to other nations. Limit the inequalities to those that benefit the least-advantaged. Today the richest Americans pay the lowest tax rates. Economic inequality encourages the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Decreasing inequality has many desirable benefits including reducing CO2 production. It is a win-win situation.
