“How ‘death panels’ can prolong life in U.S. (Actual Headline Originally From Bloomberg News)”
Yeah...but not yours.
By failing to classify very premature infants as “live births” and letting them die as “stillbirths”, infant mortality drops and life expectancy increases because of the administrative decision to let early preemies die.
By classifying children with severe birth defects as stillbirths and letting them die, such as Trisomy 18 or severe birth defects, the child dies without being counted in infant mortality, so life expectancy increases.
In both cases,the refusal to consider them “alive” and give medical treatment kills them while improving the official “life expectancy” metric.