US Life Expectancy Drops... Again

[Rational Poster]

Drugs, alcohol, suicide, murder, etc. If you look at actual mortality rates from health related diseases -- the US rates are not off from "top" developed nations per captia. See: heart disease, stroke, cancer,

Also, this really isn't a Trump effect -- or is as much of one as the state of the economy and markets.

Trump isn't the cause of bad dietary education, farming subsidies, and heart disease, he's a victim too.

 

[franklinstower]

Better get the federal government on the case.

No no. The market will take care of this all by itself now that we have lowered the corporate tax rate.

I fully expect corporations that produce pollution of any kind to immediately invest in cleaner disposal practices and voluntary regulations.

 

[franklinstower]

Yeah, life expectancy doesn't concern me all that much.
It has come down a lot to personal choice compared to history were you only had a limit chance making it to age 12 and later again struggle not to die on your teeth.
If you are a fat ass, smoker etc. can't really complain if you die a few years earlier.

If cancer doesn't get me beforehand. I will go out like all the male members of the family before me.
Drinking myself to death on a minimum government pension.
That's the real beauty of being a German. The worst thing that can happen to you is the government pays for an apartment and you get a basic income still enough to drink yourself to death.
All things considered that is not that bad.

I wish we had that basic level of care here in the states.