This 24/7 Wall St. article, “States where people live longest” says “The United States has a health problem. Across the country, life expectancies routinely fail to meet the standards set by other developed nations. Differences in life expectancy between the United States and other developed nations, such as Switzerland and Japan, are dramatic.”

The Website also lists those states with the lowest life expectancies.

Pennsylvania, evidently, lies somewhere in the 30 remaining states because it did not make either of the lists. We might be average or “the worst of the best or the best of the worst.”