long island school district found to have higher rates of cancer cases study roughly 16 million us men are without health insurance and affordability is the reason that people most often cite for why they do not enroll in a health plan they wrote men with lower incomes tend to partake in unhealthy habits more frequently such as drinking and smoking leading to chronic conditions such as diabetes obesity and heart disease they have the lowest rate of prostate cancerrelated deaths among the other countries studied largely because the us offers wideranging cancer testing and advanced treatments the authors of the study said men stressed because they are lowincome earners were less likely to have a regular doctor around 29 of american men reported they have multiple chronic illnesses followed closely by australian men at 25 according to the study men living in france and norway were the lowest at 17 american men also dont think highly of the us health care system with only 37 giving it a high rating its even worse among men with a belowaverage income with only 32 approving the healthcare system the study looked at men from the us switzerland norway new zealand germany australia the uk france the netherlands canada and sweden and found that rates of avoidable deaths chronic conditions and mental health needs are among the highest with american men there was a silver lining among men in the us american men are sicker and die earlier than men living in other developed nations according to a new report from the commonwealth fund a nonprofit organization focusing on public health issues abc news reached out to the authors of the study for comment but have not heard back the us remains an outlier being the only industrialized nation without universal healthcare and has led to men avoiding getting the care they need because costs are too high researchers noted men in the us also die from avoidable deaths classified as deaths before 75 years old at a higher rate than men from the 10 other countries listed in the report lowincome earners are least likely to afford adequate care and cant visit the doctor regularly which contributes to worsening health issues the study added stock imagegetty images the study showed that income disparities also play a factor in ones health experts reveal how likely reinfection is from covid with spread of omicron subvariant ba5 whether its stubbornness an aversion to appearing weak or vulnerable or other reasons men go to the doctor far less than women do the studys authors wrote