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2018-08-25 Science & Technology
So, Why Has U.S. Life Expectancy Declined Now Two Years In A Row?
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-08-25 01:49|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 What about Chicago?
Posted by gorb 2018-08-25 02:05||   2018-08-25 02:05|| Front Page Top

#2 "That study also uncovered a growing midlife death rate from numerous diseases of the lungs, heart, lungs, digestive systems and other organs..."

Gosh, that must come from the decline in smoking. (Notice that both lungs appear on this list) OK maybe its only from too much treadmill running.
Posted by Daniel 2018-08-25 02:34||   2018-08-25 02:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Correlation causes cancer!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-08-25 03:36||   2018-08-25 03:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Obamacare.
Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-08-25 03:48||   2018-08-25 03:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Woolf also cited what he calls "deaths of despair," fatalities stemming from alcoholism and suicide.

Gee, didn't I hear something like that about Russian life expectancy? And what similarities (autocracy and socialism) may both be behind it?
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-08-25 06:43||   2018-08-25 06:43|| Front Page Top

#6 The demo media is killing me.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-08-25 09:53||   2018-08-25 09:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Obamacare

Yep. Where I live premium + deductible have reached 500% of pre-ACA levels but that's not apples-to-apples as what's left is a crappy HMO and what 20% of the cost of the HMO bought before was a gold-plated low deductible plan. There's now a grand total of one seller of individual & small business plans. No coverage is available that covers issues that occur outside the state and the better health care providers in urban areas within the state are not available to residents of rural areas. The ACA is very literally killing people where I live.
Posted by Dino Phith7890 2018-08-25 10:31||   2018-08-25 10:31|| Front Page Top

#8 FDA dietary guidelines can take at least some of the credit.
Posted by Iblis 2018-08-25 11:26||   2018-08-25 11:26|| Front Page Top

#9 #4 Obama could careless. theyre just deplorables anyway
Posted by 746 2018-08-25 11:31||   2018-08-25 11:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Like the booming economy, it's a legacy of Obama.
[snerk] sorry, couldn't help myself.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-08-25 12:17||   2018-08-25 12:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Go large!
Posted by DooDahMan 2018-08-25 12:20||   2018-08-25 12:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Obamacare only went full force in 2015-16, and we are reaping the "rewards" now of less availability of healthcare. People put things off because they cant afford it or they cant afford Obamacares insurance.

A lot of good medical people, MDs, are quitting or going to cash-only.

And there is a nursing shortage thats only gotten worse: retirement understaffing and burnout are costing us the most experienced RNs. And to top it off, the millennials are not getting into the field in sufficient numbers to even come close to partially replace them.

Its the payoff for Soros, Clinton, Obama, Reid, Pelosi and progressives, designed to produce more depression so they can push for bigger more controlling government that they can run.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-08-25 14:08||   2018-08-25 14:08|| Front Page Top

#13 I thought that this was the whole point of ObamaCare, to thin out the surplus undesirable population. Maybe I misunderstood...
Posted by ed in texas 2018-08-25 14:37||   2018-08-25 14:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Read the papa Johns manager story from today for one important factor in the decline.
Posted by Airandee 2018-08-25 14:44||   2018-08-25 14:44|| Front Page Top

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