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US life expectancy falls for third year in a row (2015-2017)


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2019 Mar 11, 7:41pm   1,885 views  2 comments

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1   Ceffer   2019 Mar 11, 8:36pm  

If we can increase the production of oxycontin, we might be able to get it back down to where it was in the Middle Ages.
2   curious2   2019 Mar 11, 8:46pm  

Ceffer says
If we can increase the production of oxycontin, we might be able to get it back down to where it was in the Middle Ages.


Even apart from that, hospitals are making the most of their infinite subsidies, injuring and killing people through inertia including nosocomial infections and medical errors (3rd leading cause of death in the USA), even saline IVs:

New research calls into question what’s in those IV bags that nearly every hospitalized patient gets. Using a different intravenous fluid instead of the usual saline greatly reduced the risk of death or kidney damage, two large studies found.

The difference could mean 50,000 to 70,000 fewer deaths and 100,000 fewer cases of kidney failure each year in the United States, researchers estimate. Some doctors are hoping the results will persuade more hospitals to switch.

‘‘We’ve been sounding the alarm for 20 years,’’ said Dr. John Kellum, a specialist at the University of Pittsburgh. ‘‘It’s purely inertia’’ that prevents a change, he said.
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These people die very expensively, in the hospital, big money to be made!!!

As noted in the OP, 7 of the top 10 causes of death have increased. Opioids are only one factor, with subsidized fentanyl displacing heroin as the most commonly lethal opiate/opioid.

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