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US life expectancy, currently 49th, expected to fall to 66th by 2050
- NoZZz 2y agoWe can do better, it is time to return to the constitution that clearly says we are all created equal under god. And hence deserve equal treatment. The reign of the corporation must end.
- clipsy 2y agoSurely we can do better -- I bet if we put our minds to it, we could drop to 66th by 2030!
- more_corn 2y agoSeriously, we’ve got RFK questioning vaccines, promises to roll back government overreach in areas like protections against toxic chemicals, two fresh pandemics brewing. I bet we can get there by the end of 2025!
- aussieguy1234 2y agoI heard they're going it put a vaccine skeptic in charge of the FDA. You'd just need a few more moves like that, roll back whatever government funded healthcare currently exists and a few other moves to encourage more unhealthy lifestyle habits and 2030 might actually be possible. Meanwhile in Australia, we are sitting at 4th place with universal healthcare and a half decent welfare system, although there is a housing crisis at the moment which is resulting in more homeless every year, if that keeps up we might fall below 4th place.
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoGrowth in male suicide has peaked in middle aged men. ... but now it is surging in 20s/30s men.
- sdfsdfdf 2y agoMight be a local peak, those in there 20s/30s today will soon be middle aged. If you're suicidal in your prime, and you don't manage to build a family, good fucking luck in your autumn years. A strong driver of suicide (in all cultures, across time) is rejection by your community. Nowadays, it's easy for neurotic people to feel that way because they don't have a community telling them otherwise.
- ulfw 2y agoNothing says 'a country is on a steady slope down' more than this.
- hilux 2y agoThe beauty is, no matter how bad it gets, the GOP has figured out how to pin ALL the blame on the Dems, liberals, Muslims, homosexuals, Mexicans, Hillary's pizza, Hunter Biden's laptop, ...
- rayiner 2y agoIronically, Hispanics have higher life expectancies than white people, so the GOP can’t blame the decline on them. But Hispanics also have the lowest access to healthcare coverage, so democrats can’t blame declining life expectancy on not spending enough money on healthcare or whatever either. The real reason seems to be that Americans are disproportionately fat, lonely, and live apart from extended family.
- tptacek 2y agoOr you could just go look this up. Ranking of life expectancy asks the question of what causes contribute the most to the life expectancy shortfall between the US and the countries ahead of us on the rankings. The mix of contributions is different depending on which country (Australia looks more like us than France), but across the board the most consistent major factors are homicide, firearms, motor vehicle accidents, and drug overdoses. No matter what country you look at, those are the ones that are always distinctively different here.
- hilux 2y agoDo you think that the factors you mentioned, most obviously drug overdoses, might be linked to being lonely and disconnected from family?
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- Buttons840 2y agoIf cuts to Medicare are made it will hasten this. It will also be ironic that Medicare "needed" to be cut in the face of lackluster life expectancy.
- jerlam 2y agoReminder that the US is so big and has a weak federal government, that there can be dramatic differences between states. Hawaii: 81.0 (highest) Mississippi: 71.9 (lowest) Unfortunately, even Hawaii is barely above average compared to EU countries.