ACSH Science Dispatch
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What MAHA Gets Wrong About America's 'Healthy' Past
15 minutes Posted Mar 16, 2026 at 8:10 pm.
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RFK, Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement hinges on the assumption that our country was once far healthier than it is today. The problem? It never was. By almost every metric, Americans lead longer, healthier lives now than their ancestors ever did. Let's take a closer look at the evidence.