If you think it's bad now, wait until the last "A Song of Ice and Fire" book comes out. Life expectancy will plummet as people discover they have literally nothing to live for anymore.
Hahahahaha. That's amazing.
U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further
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#32(On edit: below comment is retracted. At least for 2015 to 2016, the decline is not attributable to Simpson's paradox. See Table 4 in the CDC report linked below.) This is either incompetence or maliciousness on behalf of the CDC, WSJ, or both. Life expectancy in the US is falling, but it's only falling due to Simpson's Paradox [1]. The CDC's own data [2] shows life expectancy increasing for all genders and races exc…
How does that compare to other countries with changing racial composition? What has happened to black men to cause their life expectancy to fall?
A sharp rise in police killing unarmed black men, I'd wager.
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#33It’s remarkable how much of the article narrates a tale of opioids and suicide, whereas the obvious elephant in the room seems the be the poor, or lack thereof of a public health care system.
I dont disagree that public healthcare would improve life expectancy but it wouldn't cause a decrease in life expectancy as healthcare is not any less accessible today than in the past
Citation needed, if only because of the increased expense.
Also, public heath care plays a massive role in opioids treatment and suicide prevention, at least in developed countries.
What seems to be clear is, unless the issue if acknowledged, the US will continue to slide literally to developing countries life expectancy levels.
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#34Stress, cancer, inactivity, obesity, diabetes, prescription and street drug abuse... doesn't surprise me unfortunately :(
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#35The decline is mostly the product of an increase in drug overdose deaths and suicides (likely also related to drug abuse[1]). Cancer mortality is continuing to decline which is nice to hear: "Earlier this century, the steady and robust decline in heart-disease deaths more than offset the rising number from drugs and suicide, Dr. Anderson said. Now, “those declines aren’t there anymore,” he said, and the drug and suic…
> The decline is mostly the product of an increase in drug overdose and suicides The US is pretty much also the only country where suicides are increasing.
Are there other countries where the news media is as hell-bent on stoking the fires of craziness and painting the world as a horrible, horrible place full only of strife and despair?
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#36Is there any indication as to whether life expectancy has fallen for all income groups? Are there any income related discrepancies?
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#37I think we've reached the point of diminishing marginal returns to health care spending. That means when we spend more money on healthcare as a percent of GDP, life expectancy starts to fall. We are already at 16% of GDP spent on healthcare. That's double the amount that any other country spends on healthcare. We also have worse life expectancy vs. countries that spend much less as a percent of GDP than we do. One of…
It's not how much you spend, it's what you get for it.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dont disagree that public healthcare would improve life expectancy but it wouldn't cause a decrease in life expectancy as healthcare is not any less accessible today than in the past
Citation needed, if only because of the increased expense. Also, public heath care plays a massive role in opioids treatment and suicide prevention, at least in developed countries. What seems to be clear is, unless the issue if acknowledged, the US will continue to slide literally to developing countries life expectancy levels.
I wonder if I should be concerned. If I simply avoid opioids and suicide, I'm safe?
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#39If you can't read the original article: https://outline.com/nzuAst
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The decline is mostly the product of an increase in drug overdose and suicides The US is pretty much also the only country where suicides are increasing.
Are there other countries where the news media is as hell-bent on stoking the fires of craziness and painting the world as a horrible, horrible place full only of strife and despair?
India