From the 'we've come a long way' file: an African-American man in Mississippi currently has a shorter life expectancy than an average American did in 1960. Whoa.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNyTuGgX0wg&w=620&h=315] However you choose to slice it, the health care situation in the United States is a bit of a wreck, to be sure. The Commonwealth Fund just released some detailed rankings of health care performance state-by-state, and then the main authors of that research went deeper into their scorecard …