Naturally this was a major contributor, I'm just surprised it caused the entire country's LE to drop so fast and so dramatically, although this was par for the course in the eastern bloc countries undergoing shock therapy.
Apparently we still don't know exactly why, because the incoming Freedom and Democracy of the West™ thought it was a cool idea to rip out the entire medical coding system in GDR hospitals. So there's very little data on why life expectancy dropped even in the furthest west parts of the former eastern bloc.
Naturally this was a major contributor, I'm just surprised it caused the entire country's LE to drop so fast and so dramatically, although this was par for the course in the eastern bloc countries undergoing shock therapy.
Apparently we still don't know exactly why, because the incoming Freedom and Democracy of the West™ thought it was a cool idea to rip out the entire medical coding system in GDR hospitals. So there's very little data on why life expectancy dropped even in the furthest west parts of the former eastern bloc.