Posted on 04/04/2023 6:49:31 PM PDT by navysealdad
Recently, National Public Radio (NPR) in the US published a story titled ‘Live free and die? The sad state of US life expectancy’ that explored the great divide between the United States and peer countries on life expectancy.
While most countries experienced a dip during the Covid-19 pandemic and rebounded after vaccines and other treatments were rolled out, American life expectancy has essentially fallen off a cliff and never came back.
The graph published by NPR is shocking. It shows that US life expectancy is lower than in Cuba or Lebanon. The number has been known since just before Christmas when health officials announced that the country’s life expectancy had dropped starkly for a second year in a row to 76 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at theinteldrop.org ...
I wonder if this factors in or out urban centers.
#fat
They are starting to pump mRNA into the food supply ... nothing to worry about though ... right?
Not if you ask gassy, missingmymojo, DiscoDug or Fewry.
I wonder who The Intel Drop is?
Anyone besides me notice the obvious and unflattering photo of the golfer is supposed to represent DJT. He even has light hair and a red hat—MAGA hat.
Looks like a swipe at Trump IMO.
I’m actually starting to wonder if they aren’t packing in the illegal aliens so they can be exterminated along with us.
Well the “comparably rich countries” don’t have a demented pedophile and a ho running their countries.
US life expectancy began dropping in 2014, when Obamacare messed up the medical industry. It dropped for five years, finally recovering under Trump, but has wobbled since then.
Fentanyl?
Covidious klot-schotz?
There must be a reason.
“announced that the country’s life expectancy had dropped starkly for a second year in a row to 76 years.”
Hmmm, what could have started three years that might be responsible?
76 huh…I’m about to turn 72 still working.
Retirement planning just got easier.
I would not trust Cuba’s numbers on anything.
The article from NPR said life expectancy is shorter in rural areas, probably from lack of available health care, and it’s shorter in states that won’t expand Medicare
Drugs, crime, and obesity.
Followed links at the source, reporter of original article is a Russian Commie who loves predicting the demise of the US.
Not sayin’ he’s wrong, it’s just interesting context.
We are spending more on health care than ever before: https://img.datawrapper.de/PhiPo/full.png
We are spending twice on healthcare what the average industrialized nation does: https://topforeignstocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/U.S.-Healthcare-Spending-Compare-To-Other-Countries-chart-2021.jpg
We today have more government managing health care (>1/3 of all the money in health care is government) and even deciding what people get through a “standard of care” they mostly define and which insurance, hospitals, doctors follow: FDA, NIH/CDC.
81% of the population got vaccinated, we even had mandates with coercive measures threatening people with their jobs, robbing them of basic civil rights, unless they play along.
How can that be?
Who/what will we blame now?
For longevity's sake it's better to be half starving and skinny in a place like Cuba with nearly non-existent health care than it is to be obese in the U.S. with the most advanced health care in the world.
It doesn't help that for a large portion of the U.S. middle class that health care is unaffordable. The rich can afford it, and the poor get it free from the government. The middle class don't qualify for medicaid and can't afford the $3000 a month premiums for health insurance.
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