Posted on 12/07/2016 9:51:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
A decades-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. could be ending: It declined last year and it is no better than it was four years ago.
In most of the years since World War II, life expectancy in the U.S. has inched up, thanks to medical advances, public health campaigns and better nutrition and education.
But last year it slipped, an exceedingly rare event in a year that did not include a major disease outbreak. Other one-year declines occurred in 1993, when the nation was in the throes of the AIDS epidemic, and 1980, the result of an especially nasty flu season.
In 2015, rates for 8 of the 10 leading causes of death rose. Even more troubling to health experts: the U.S. seems to be settling into a trend of no improvement at all. …
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All three years when democrats were president. Carter, Clinton, and Obama.
Great job Obama
Socialized medicine will do that.
The proto-marxist Obama has sucked the “animal spirits” out of American society and its economy, and its literally killing us.
Makes me think of the farm boy who would lift a calf every day, figuring that he would be able to lift a bull, when it came to that.
There's a limit to everything.
death by illegal invader
Must be the death squads from Obama Care!!!
more like blacks killing blacks, blacks killing cops, ILLEGAL ALIENS bringing in lots of diseases, ObamaCare, and people doping themselves to death due to all things Obama brought us.
Obamacare was supposed to make us all healthier.
Yet another Obama legacy to America.
Obammy’s policies aimed at destroying America have cut short the lives of countless patriotic elderly people.
Trump will improve life expectancy greatly by cleaning up Democrat cesspools
yup... importing many more people who are less healthy. What did we expect to happen?
OTOH....it was all part of Obama's plan to completely change this nation. It's just that his supporters didn't understand what he meant, which was to DESTROY this nation and the populace...except for his cronies.
How many died prematurely during the obama years because they, quite simply, couldn’t bear to watch the chronic *ssclown destroy America....?
“.. has sucked the “animal spirits” out of American society and its economy, and its literally killing us.”
I do think that many in American society have become dispirited, for a variety of reasons, and that this contributes to a decline in health in a very real way. When you feel demoralized, it has a great effect on your life.
$24000premiums and $6000 deductibles will do that.
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