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Just before Christmas, federal health officials confirmed life expectancy in America had dropped for a nearly unprecedented second year in a row – down to 76 years. While countries all over the world saw life expectancy rebound during the second year of the pandemic after the arrival of vaccines, the U.S. did not.
Then, last week, more bad news: Maternal mortality in the U.S. reached a high in 2021. Also, a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association found rising mortality rates among U.S. children and adolescents.
**"This is the first time in my career that I've ever seen [an increase in pediatric mortality] – it's always been declining in the United States for as long as I can remember," ** says the JAMA paper's lead author Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University. "Now, it's increasing at a magnitude that has not occurred at least for half a century."
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Across the lifespan, and across every demographic group, Americans die at younger ages than their counterparts in other wealthy nations.
How could this happen? In a country that prides itself on scientific excellence and innovation, and spends an incredible amount of money on health care, the population keeps dying at younger and younger ages.
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Yes, Americans eat more calories and lack universal access to health care. But there's also higher child poverty, racial segregation, social isolation, and more. Even the way cities are designed makes access to good food more difficult.
So on top of covid and anti-vax/mask psychos doing their best to spread a deadly disease before a vaccine was available, every other aspect of US life is unhealthy and kills people too young also.
There are some things Americans get right, according to the "Shorter Lives" report: "The United States has higher survival after age 75 than do peer countries, and it has higher rates of cancer screening and survival, better control of blood pressure and cholesterol levels, lower stroke mortality, lower rates of current smoking, and higher average household income." But those achievements, it's clear, aren't enough to offset the other problems that befall many Americans at younger ages.
If you're rich and have good medical care you're all set!
The United States has higher survival after age 75
okay cool so you just have to be economically stable enough to actually make it to age 75. (which I know I won't because I'm probably gonna die in some civil conflict when America balkanizes in the 2030s during the water wars).
Hilariously, Cali and Oregon will never split no matter how badly the MAGA want it to happen
Oregon can expand north to canada to get the approprialtly same length then California , then both should expand east along their common (+ nevada and Utah ) line into the Mountaintribes and Cultist Theocracies towards the Truck Nomad Warlords of the Dry Plaines. if you extend their border it makes a good "golden cut" through the shitty place. If Oregeon and California managed a accord , they are pre destined to emerge victrious from the waring states period.
nah nobody gonna live in arizona anymore .. its the Land of the sitting death , the heat preserves the bodies of the tousands of Corpses sitting in chairs having died while waiting to complain to the waterworks hotline..
All of this costs the country tremendously. Not only do families lose loved ones too soon, but having a sicker population costs the country as much as $100 billion every year in extra health care costs.
:porky-happy: That's right, we're all in this together! All of that money is just lost to the void... Oh, and there certainly are no cartels becoming fabulously wealthy off of every facet of your suffering
Socialize the costs and privatize the profits! Because that’s the American way!!! 🎵 🎵 🎵
survival after age 75 than do peer countries, and it has higher rates of cancer screening and survival, better control of blood pressure and cholesterol levels, lower stroke mortality, lower rates of current smoking, and higher average household income.
Hmmmm seems having access to material resources like wealth makes you live longer how interesting. Maybe we should make use of that wealth for everyone?
The United States has higher survival after age 75
we're going to have one really really old guy and that means we win
If we ignore all the kids we shoot and run over how much does that get us?
Gee, I wonder what happened in the nineties that caused the US life expectancy to diverge fom the same growth rate as those other countries.
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With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.
Crimmins says, in her experience, lawmakers and federal health officials don't like talking about how the U.S. is lagging behind other countries.
"I convened a meeting in Washington with the National Center for Health Statistics [part of CDC] about increasing healthy life expectancy," she recalls. "It was a relatively small meeting, but we brought experts from Canada." An official at the time gave what she calls a "typical" response, saying: "Oh, we can't have anything but an American solution to these issues – we can't listen to other countries."
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He believes that the changes might not be as hard as some policymakers and health officials seem to think. "You look at these healthier countries, they're free countries – England, France, Italy – they're not banning delicious foods. They're not chaining people to treadmills," he says.
China is attacking us with their high-mortality-rate balloon weaponry
