CDC says life expectancy in US up, deaths not

AP ^ | 8/19/09 | Mike Stobbe

[ProtectOurFreedom]

U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday. The increase is due mainly to falling death rates in almost all the leading causes of death. The average life expectancy for babies born in 2007 is nearly three months greater than for children born in 2006. The new U.S. data is a preliminary report based on about 90 percent of the death certificates collected in 2007. It comes from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Life expectancy is the period a child born in 2007 is expected to live, assuming mortality trends stay constant. U.S. life expectancy has grown nearly one and a half years in the past decade, and is now at an all-time-high.... The death rate has been falling for eight straight years, and is half of what it was 60 years ago.

1. Heart disease death rate dropped nearly 5 percent in 2007
2. Cancer death rate fell nearly 2 percent.
3. HIV death rate dropped 10 percent, the biggest one-year decline in 10 years.
4. Dabetes death rate fell about 4 percent, allowing Alzheimer's disease to surpass diabetes to become the sixth leading cause of death.

Alzheimer's has been climbing the death chart in recent years, though that may be partly because declines in other causes are enabling more people to live long enough to die from Alzheimer's, Anderson said.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There you have it! Proof positive that the U.S. health care system isn't worth a damn and we need a total, top to bottom overhaul of healthcare. It's obvious that we must put our lives under government control because we are too stupid to manage ourselves. And we must do it in the next two weeks or we're all going to die!

Furthermore, this evidence proves we need Government Death Panels to instruct us to die earlier so we don't get Alzheimers.

[the invisib1e hand]

Furthermore, this evidence proves we need Government Death Panels to instruct us to die earlier so we don't get Alzheimers.

That is bad news indeed. /s

[La Lydia]

Pretty good for a country with a crap health-care system that the Libtards are so busy describing and deriding.

[Always Right]

People are living longer!!!! So that is the real crisis Democrats are trying to solve??? Bring on the Death Panels!!!

[Rapscallion]

What would our national “life expectancy” be if we counted all the abortions?

Probably around 40 years.

[FlingWingFlyer]

ObamaCare is designed to bring a halt to this trend.

[immadashell]

The crisis is that there are just too many old people. That’s what the libs are really afraid of. They thought they had it solved when they took over AARP and now have to think it over since AARP is losing members almost as fast as the obsolete media is losing readers, listeners and advertisers. The new solution is to kill off all them old folks with public socialized health-care/health insurance.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Interestingly enough the average life in Japan is the longest in the world. There are several European country where people have a longer life span than the US. US women live to be 80 years old on the average. Black men have the shortest average lifespan in the US. Homosexuals, I believe, have the shortest average lifespan of any group - undoubtedly caused by their genetic makeup/s.

[ladyvet]

...But I'm not dead yet!

[Nathan Zachary]

"U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday. The increase is due mainly to falling death rates in almost all the leading causes of death."

Duh. What a brilliant conclusion. Amazing what passes for and "scientific observation" these days.

I wonder if it will ever dawn on this person that you can't have one without the other; life expectancy goes up? death rates fall. leading causes of death go up? life expectancy falls.

[Marty62]

Yes well since SS and Medicare were all based on a Life actuary table of Americans having a life expectancy of 68 men,72 woman.( don't have the actual #’s, typing from memory). Why do you think the Fascist are so upset. The EVILLLL med community has given Americans outstanding life saving care. THIS MUST BE STOPPED

[bobsatwork]

There are several European country where people have a longer life span than the US. - There was a recent article on this (Steyn?). The US has a relatively high infant mortality rate, which skews the life expectancy numbers. Once you get out of the crib, the US is at / near the top for longevity. Due, in part, to the BEST HEALTHCARE ON THE PLANET.

[RobFromGa]

“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

Now that we are providing care for the sick, this is not unexpected. Looking forward to the jobs, and the receding oceans...

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

[MEGoody]

CDC says life expectancy in US up

Don't worry. Obamacare will fix that.

[Condor51]

This is NOT going to please _dr Ezekial 'Josef Mengele' Emanuel. Nope, not one bit.

In order for his 'money saving plans' to work the U.S. life expectancy should be that of Swaziland, 39.6 years. (lowest on planet earth)

[depressed in 06]

This statistic, life expectancy, will be replaced with how many are alive at age 22. It will be more important how many 22 year olds there are to pay for those slackers over 60.

[BigBobber]

The Democrats in congress have been running a Ponzi scheme for 60 years now. It’s called Social Security and MediCare. The Baby Boomers who have been funding the system all these year are about to retire and start drawing out of the system, and this is going to blow the cover of these crooks and expose their fraud. This is why Zero and his buddies are so desperate to cut off the payouts to the boomers and at the same time keep feeding the pyramid scheme with new income from ObamaCare.

Democrats are facing of double whammy of having their global warming farce and socialism Ponzi scheme revealed as massive frauds over the next few years. They are scared and will become more desperate and dangerous as their belief system and public support tumbles down. Get ready for a rough ride.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I am betting if you broke things down by race whites in the US probably have similar lifespans to Nordic countries.

Blacks have much shorter lifespans and obviously we have more blacks than Norway.

[fso301]

Take the 17 year old driveby shooting deaths out of the equation and the numbers start looking even better