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Although I'd love to see a UHC in this country, you people are missing the point. The point is that drug overdoses and suicides are what is lowering the US life expectancy. It's not "lack of preventive care" (which is pretty well covered by the ACA) and which most people don't understand anyway. The big issue is the increase in deaths of young adults, 25-44. When you're doing an "average" a lot of deaths at a young age impacts the number.
Although I'd love to see a UHC in this country, you people are missing the point. The point is that drug overdoses and suicides are what is lowering the US life expectancy. It's not "lack of preventive care" (which is pretty well covered by the ACA) and which most people don't understand anyway. The big issue is the increase in deaths of young adults, 25-44. When you're doing an "average" a lot of deaths at a young age impacts the number.
This.
I'd love to see the same numbers run for people ate 60+. By then, the drug overdoses, suicides, risky behaviors, etc., have probably flushed themselves out.
I'd love to see the same numbers run for people ate 60+. By then, the drug overdoses, suicides, risky behaviors, etc., have probably flushed themselves out.
That is a sad statistic. I do wonder though if it is a combination of stress for that age group and the lack of skills to deal with life. That age group overall has had a cushy upbringing. Some of them have been very protected, spoiled, babied and sheltered. "Not all" but quite a few and maybe they just aren't prepared to deal with the hardships that life can throw at us and they can't handle it.
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