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Middle & Working-Class Whites are now seeing their life expectancy fall for the first time in this nation's history.
This disturbing'& shocking reversal tells us much about the real health of hundreds of millions of Americans, the real "health" of the American economy, and is a deeply ominous sign of devastating trends now underway in The United States of America.
curious2
2016 Dec 8, 1:56pm
I don't understand why this isn't a bigger story. It is literally a matter of life and death. Millions of Americans died sooner and poorer than they should have, and the pattern has remained consistent for five years. As with the American war in Viet Nam, boosters persist in seeing light at the end of the tunnel, rather than acknowledge a chronicle of error. People in other countries are living longer, partly due to science developed here first. Americans are dying sooner, but business is booming so hardly anyone cares.
Why anyone would want to live beyond 80 is crazy.
That's because we've spent so much on lucrative pills and procedures that make people die more slowly and expensively, rather than researching how to help people live longer and healthier lives. Also, keep in mind the average life expectancy includes many who have died prematurely, needlessly, e.g. from subsidized Oxycontin. If they want to overdose on opiates or opioids, then let them buy morphine OTC at $0.10/tablet, but quit subsidizing the 2,000% markup that pushes Oxycontin onto teenagers.
Ceffer
2016 Dec 8, 1:59pm
America is becoming a cesspool of squalorous human contagion with a veneer of civilization. Welcome the the third world-i-zation of America!
APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says
If you won't work 8 jobs to live indoors, you deserve to die.
I thought you supported the legislation
All driven by lifestyle diseases. What counseling can be provided to a patient in a 15 minute encounter; moreover, many of doctors set poor example by enabling patients shitty lifestyle choices simply by prescribing drugs and just saying "watch diet and exercise"
curious2
2016 Dec 8, 6:52pm
enabling patients
This is actually advertised on TV as an incentive of Obamneycare. A patient complains of symptoms, "provider" diagnoses allergy to cats and advises giving away the cat, patient refuses, doctor offers an array of treatments to manage symptoms, announcer intones something like, 'we understand you' (by prescribing whatever enables continued self-destruction, and using the information in the most lucrative ways). Now that every person with a pulse (even if artificial) has become an infinite goldmine, California is witnessing yet another gold rush, as patient data are mined at scale for subsidized revenue opportunities.
curious2
2016 Dec 8, 6:54pm
The question is,
why are highly qualified scientific researchers pushing chronic daily pills instead of researching new cures? Why does an octogenarian today resemble an octogenarian from ancient Rome? After spending trillions of dollars, this is all we can show for it? Every five years, many aspects of technology advance an order of magnitude, as Moore's Law applies to several tech sectors. In the same period ot time, American policy has increased medical spending with zero increase in life expectancy. That is by design: the legislation was written to increase public spending (which the lemon socialist authors perceive as private profit), even if it worsens health (e.g. more diagnostic radiation -> future cancer patients).
Strategist
2016 Dec 8, 7:07pm
You still can have sex beyond 80.
The question is, would you really want to??
I just changed my mind.
Patrick
2016 Dec 8, 7:28pm
You still can have sex beyond 80.
The question is, would you really want to??
I just changed my mind.
For men with money, acceptable entertainment is always available.
Looking at @Rin ...
curious2
2016 Dec 8, 9:50pm
119/.45 = 264. In other words, total worldwide biomedical research adds up to less than 1/10th of America's medical spending, which exceeds $3T/year. At least 30% of American medical spending consists of waste, fraud, and abuse, adding up to $1T/year. In other words, our medical system wastes more than the whole world's research budget.
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In all, the decline was driven by increases in deaths from eight of the top 10 leading causes of death in the U.S.
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[L]ife expectancy is still on the rise in most other industrialized countries."
Life expectancy flatlined from 2012-2014 after increasing only 0.1 year in 2011. The decrease in 2015 was also 0.1 year, thus canceling the 2011 increase. In other words, life expectancy stagnated from 2010 (when Obamneycare got signed) through 2015 (the most recent year for which data are available), after previously increasing almost every year.
As I wrote here when I first started commenting on PatNet, and as the federal CMS projected, this legislation increases spending faster than prior law. I wrote that the legislation would cause Americans to die sooner and poorer than they would have otherwise. For that honest (and now proven accurate) prediction, partisans denounced me as a traitor. They accused me falsely of all sorts of terrible motives, anything they could imagine in order to avoid reading the legislation and thinking through the predictable consequences. The legislation is operating as designed, increasing spending: particularly increasing waste, fraud, and abuse. It was Democrats in DC who betrayed their own voters.
Thanks, Obamneycare.
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