Posted on 11/03/2015 12:47:17 PM PST by mojito
A large segment of white middle-aged Americans has suffered a startling rise in its death rate since 1999, reversing decades of progress, according to a new review of statistics published Monday.
The mortality rate for white men and women between the ages of 45 and 54 with less than a college education increased by half a percent per year between 1999 and 2013, most likely because of problems with legal and illegal drugs, alcohol, and suicide, according to the study released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
The rising death rate was accompanied by a parallel increase in the rate of illness, the authors wrote.
"Drugs and alcohol, and suicide ... are clearly the proximate cause," said Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel laureate in economics, who co-authored the paper....
"Half a million people are dead who should not be dead," he added. "About 40 times the Ebola stats. You're getting up there with HIV-AIDS."
Since at least 1970, Americans and residents of other wealthy countries have generally enjoyed longer and healthier lives, as smoking has declined, better treatments have been developed and preventive measures have had an impact on mortality.
But these bleak findings could have far-reaching implications as the surviving members of this sizable segment of the Baby Boom continue toward retirement and eligibility for Medicare, according to experts....
"This is the first indicator that the plane has crashed," said Jonathan Skinner, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College, who reviewed the study and co-authored a commentary that appears with it. "I don't know what's going on, but the plane has definitely crashed."
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They could still be paying taxes to help support the rest.
#middle-agedwhitelivesmatter
Financial problems. We were there but survived, thank God. Also, a lack of religiousity doesn’t help in times of trouble.
Yep, that ought to make a lot of people happy....what they going to do when we are all gone?
The government is killing the makers while supporting the takers.
Its gotten so bad, there are people dying who have never died before.
Middle-aged whites in US dying at a startling rate............because they want to...................................(old Jewish joke)..........................
I betcha there are more pre-born babies dying at an even more startling rate.
They will eventually turn on each other. That’s how it usually turns out. It will not be pretty.
Well, looking around, I’d wager they’ll live in the buildings you have built until they are dilapidated and falling down. They’ll never build another new one. They’ll start killing each other for being various shades of brown, first using weapons you left behind and eventually be back to using stones. They’ll drive the cars you have built until they don’t run anymore and eventually be back to horseback and then two feet. Etc.
I think Dean Wormer had it right.
The oligarchy has not allowed them to be defined as ‘alive as human beings’, so the murder rate among them is steqadily climbing.
Yeah.. should've stayed with paddling in schools instead of telling parents to put their kids on behavior-modifying narcotics.
White, poorly educated.
Day after day of disastrous and traitorous remarks and actions by the current regime takes a PHYSICAL TOLL on patriotic Americans. The brainless thrive, the thoughtful whither away in disgust.
Democrats are getting bolder in assassinating their political opponents as well. The biased study of course fails to mention this inconvenient truth.
Mostly overdoses from opioid drugs like Oxycontin and hydrocodone, a curse on the so-called doctors that prescribe them routinely.
And so they are out to destroy them - outright, if possible, by support of “open borders” immigration, but also through attrition by demonizing and demoralizing them.
Seems like the plan is working.
The best wording for a factual explanation.
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