Posted on 08/20/2009 6:48:05 AM PDT by 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.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at health.yahoo.com ...
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
Pretty good for a country with a crap health-care system that the Libtards are so busy describing and deriding.
People are living longer!!!! So that is the real crisis Democrats are trying to solve??? Bring on the Death Panels!!!
What would our national “life expectancy” be if we counted all the abortions?
Probably around 40 years.
ObamaCare is designed to bring a halt to this trend.
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.
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.
“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...
Don't worry. Obamacare will fix that.
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)
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.
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.
Blacks have much shorter lifespans and obviously we have more blacks than Norway.
Take the 17 year old driveby shooting deaths out of the equation and the numbers start looking even better
CDC says life expectancy in US up, deaths not
Now I see why Obozo want that healthcare plan to pass ASAP.
No news is good news-esp. for libs
Wow. That is one scary set of charts.
It leaves no doubt of the ‘train wreck’ to come.
Thanks for posting. (BTW, some other very good stuff at that web site.)
Marvelous chart!
It seems we’ll get older and poorer as a group.
Very much like Japan.
My 90 year old, father in law- battle of the bulge WWII vet
is none too pleased with the obama care plan.
He is almost 90 years old and sees the times as pre-hitler like.
But wait; I thought obesity was killing us all - I’m so confused.
Life expectancy is somewhat a measure of health, much less a measure of health care.
To illustrate: If I drink, eat and stress myself into an early grave it is not the fault of my doctor or hospital.
The US is the most obese country and second in auto deaths - these affect life expectancy also.
So... this is good news, but we MUST avoid the Obama trap of:
We pay more for health care, we have a lower life expectancy, therefore our health care system is broken.
Samuel H. Preston, Jessica Y. Ho. Low Life Expectancy in the United States: Is the Health Care System at Fault? NBER Working Paper No. 15213. August 2009. http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15213
Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality rates above age 50. Its low ranking is often blamed on a poor performance by the health care system rather than on behavioral or social factors. This paper presents evidence on the relative performance of the US health care system using death avoidance as the sole criterion. We find that, by standards of OECD countries, the US does well in terms of screening for cancer, survival rates from cancer, survival rates after heart attacks and strokes, and medication of individuals with high levels of blood pressure or cholesterol. We consider in greater depth mortality from prostate cancer and breast cancer, diseases for which effective methods of identification and treatment have been developed and where behavioral factors do not play a dominant role. We show that the US has had significantly faster declines in mortality from these two diseases than comparison countries. We conclude that the low longevity ranking of the United States is not likely to be a result of a poorly functioning health care system.
I think you are likely correct about that overall life expectancy will be less then just Anglo-American LE.
Just wait.
Update: Audio of hospital threatening to kill patient
Spero News | 8/20/09 | Robert Painter
Posted on 08/20/2009 8:18:47 AM PDT by AstralisLux
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2320436/posts
some basic considerations about stats (averages) will help here:
there are more smokers in europe.
but their health stats seem to be similar to that of european non-smokers, since
crass differences between europe and the usa –in europe’s favor– disappear when you remove smokers from the comparison.
this means that usa smokers fare horribly compared to european smokers (or, much less likely, that european smokers have much better health than european non-smokers).
it’s almost sure that usa smokers fare much much worse than european ones, simply because smoking is a lower-class thing in the usa.
so among usa smokers there must also be many more diabetics, drug addicts, alcoholics, reckless drivers, wife beaters, hypertension acrobats, overweighters, etc, i.e., people who do all those things that make “life worth living”TM.
in other words, the usa’s “melting pot”TM not only segregates by race and class, but also by morbidity, which because of “manifest destiny”TM tend to coincide!
the country indeed gives the poor and the lower middle class the “freedoom to choose”TM to be diabetics, drug addicts, alcoholics, reckless drivers, wife beaters, hypertension acrobats, or overweighters, etc; a very diverse “plethora of opportunities”TM to choose from, opportunities that these less deserving classes like to take as a combo more often than not.
obviously europeans are not enjoying these basic freedoms as freely –oh freedom! as aretha would put it– (although europeans have been catching up thanks to the recent efforts for “labor flexibility”, “private pensions”, by some of their most illuminated –if venal– leaders and intellectuals).
so the innocuous exclusion of smokers “for fairness” by the authors removed many of the most self-destructive poor and under-insured people from the usa data and left more affluent, better educated, more health-conscious upper-class usa people to be compared with a more random segment of the european population. not exactly fair, one would say.
one has to wonder though if the authors did not know about this in advance and, if they did not, why on earth they chose not to dissect the above superior health of european smokers which the result of smokers’ exclusion made evident.
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