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2017-08-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Americans Are Dying Younger ~~as planned~~, Saving Corporations Billions

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-08 09:31|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Front-End and Back-End upside gains: The Federal Government can leverage additional borrowing through anticipated long-term Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid savings.

As we all know, humans are a global problem.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-08 09:42|| 2017-08-08 09:42|| Front Page Top

#2 But are the people who are dying younger ones who are covered by pension plans? Or are company pension plans just using the statistics to lower the apparent underfunding of their plans?

Posted by Glenmore 2017-08-08 09:58|| 2017-08-08 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Just getting rid of the Hoi Polloi.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-08 10:09|| 2017-08-08 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 They stopped smoking cigarettes? Give 'em opium!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-08 10:13|| 2017-08-08 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 In 2015, the American death rate--the age-adjusted share of Americans dying--rose slightly for the first time since 1999.

Couldn't have anything to do with Obamacare, right?

Posted by Raj 2017-08-08 10:35|| 2017-08-08 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 I am seeing a tremendous increase in deaths of young and old due to meth. I called it planned parenthood for adults. A local rescue unit revived a young man 9 times with Narcan. Some saying next call to show up late. They have a Narcan nasal spray now.

Posted by Dale 2017-08-08 11:40|| 2017-08-08 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 I called it planned parenthood for adults. Some devoutly Catholic nurses I worked with decades ago called it "4th term abortions" - referring to people who had hopelessly messed up their own lives & were always on the verge of dying due to this. The nurses were not in favor of abortion, it was just black humor in the hospital.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-08-08 11:58|| 2017-08-08 11:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Narcan is not for meth but opioids.

Posted by chris 2017-08-08 11:59|| 2017-08-08 11:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Curious if the data has been skewed by the influx of foreign nationals who come here with lesser health conditions due to their country of origin healthcare systems. Bet the data would change if you factor out foreign born/raised. Another gift of illegal immigration, data that appears to support more healthcare spending and regulation! The old system wasn't broken, just abused by freeloaders.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-08-08 13:01|| 2017-08-08 13:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Curiously, they still vote

Posted by Frank G 2017-08-08 13:39|| 2017-08-08 13:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Steady improvements in American life expectancy have stalled, and more Americans are dying at younger ages

Women used to die about the same time as males. Then patriarchal medicine in the 20th Century reduced both the childhood death rates and birthing complications leading to death. Tack on the introduction of Social Security to provide support in old age, and the female life expectancy took off. Then feminism decided they wanted to be males, just with different plumbing. Now those jobs are taking a toll on females as they always took on males.

SavingCorporations Billions

Just following the model pioneered by the VA.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-08 13:47|| 2017-08-08 13:47|| Front Page Top

#12 #8 thank you for the correction. Krokodil is another making inroads fast. Like those that huff aerosol paint fumes they have no desire to get away from it. One young man in prison said after Krokodil use I will be dead in a couple of months. If he was released he would go right back using.

Posted by Dale 2017-08-08 14:49|| 2017-08-08 14:49|| Front Page Top

#13 I associated the disfigurement to meth. The facial sores etcetera. Not that up to date with this stuff but it invades everything. Workers on a break out of the building many bathroom trips and so on.

Posted by Dale 2017-08-08 14:59|| 2017-08-08 14:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Glenmore - I think you nailed it.

Posted by warthogswife 2017-08-08 16:11|| 2017-08-08 16:11|| Front Page Top

#15 Abstract related to Besoeker's comment:

This paper documents a marked increase in the all-cause mortality of middle-aged white non-Hispanic men and women in the United States between 1999 and 2013. This change reversed decades of progress in mortality and was unique to the United States; no other rich country saw a similar turnaround. The midlife mortality reversal was confined to white non-Hispanics; black non-Hispanics and Hispanics at midlife, and those aged 65 and above in every racial and ethnic group, continued to see mortality rates fall. This increase for whites was largely accounted for by increasing death rates from drug and alcohol poisonings, suicide, and chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis. Although all education groups saw increases in mortality from suicide and poisonings, and an overall increase in external cause mortality, those with less education saw the most marked increases. Rising midlife mortality rates of white non-Hispanics were paralleled by increases in midlife morbidity. Self-reported declines in health, mental health, and ability to conduct activities of daily living, and increases in chronic pain and inability to work, as well as clinically measured deteriorations in liver function, all point to growing distress in this population.

Posted by Pappy 2017-08-08 16:51|| 2017-08-08 16:51|| Front Page Top

#16 But how many are killing themselves because their sperm is weak?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-08 19:21|| 2017-08-08 19:21|| Front Page Top

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