AMERICA'S ROAD TO REVOLUTION
“Our entire crony
capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great
country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan THE AMERICAN THINKER.com
Published on CNS News (http://www.cnsnews.com)
US life expectancy falls, as many kinds of death increase
NEW YORK (AP) — A decades-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. could be ending: It declined last year and it is no better than it was four years ago.
In most of the years since World War II, life expectancy in the U.S. has inched up, thanks to medical advances, public health campaigns and better nutrition and education.
But last year it slipped, an exceedingly rare event in a year that did not include a major disease outbreak. Other one-year declines occurred in 1993, when the nation was in the throes of the AIDS epidemic, and 1980, the result of an especially nasty flu season.
In 2015, rates for 8 of the 10 leading causes of death rose. Even more troubling to health experts: the U.S. seems to be settling into a trend of no improvement at all.
"With four years, you're starting to see some indication of something a little more ominous," said S. Jay Olshansky, a University of Illinois-Chicago public health researcher.
An American born in 2015 is expected to live 78 years and 9½ months, on average, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An American born in 2014 could expect to live about month longer, and even an American born in 2012 would have been expected to live slightly longer. In 1950, life expectancy was just over 68 years.
The United States ranks below dozens of other high-income countries in life expectancy, according to the World Bank. It is highest in Japan, at nearly 84 years.
The CDC report is based mainly on 2015 death certificates. There were more than 2.7 million deaths, or about 86,000 more than the previous year. The increase in raw numbers partly reflects the nation's growing and aging population.
It was led by an unusual upturn in the death rate from the nation's leading killer, heart disease. Death rates also increased for chronic lower lung disease, accidental injuries, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, kidney disease and suicide.
The only clear drop was in cancer, the nation's No. 2 killer.
Experts aren't sure what's behind the stall. Some, like Olshansky, suspect obesity, an underlying factor in some of the largest causes of death, particularly heart disease.
But there's also the impact of rising drug overdoses and suicides, he noted. "There are a lot of things happening at the same time," he said.
Some years the CDC later revises its life expectancy estimate after doing additional analysis, including for its 2014 estimate.
Average life expectancy declined for men, falling by more than two months, to 76 years and 3 ½ months in 2015. It fell by about one month for women, to 81 years and 2 ½ months, the CDC said.
Death rates increased for black men, white men, white women, and slightly for Hispanic men and women. But they did not change for black women.
The new CDC report did not offer a geographic breakdown of 2015 deaths, or analysis of death based on education or income. But other research has shown death rates are rising sharply for poorer people — particularly white people — in rural areas but not wealthier and more highly educated and people on the coasts.
"The troubling trends are most pronounced for the people who are the most disadvantaged," said Jennifer Karas Montez, a Syracuse University researcher who studies adult death patterns.
"But if we don't know why life expectancy is decreasing for some groups, we can't be confident that it won't start declining for others," she said.
US life expectancy falls for first time since 1993
By Jerry White
9 December 2016
A new report from the federal Center for Disease Control and
Prevention found that between 2014 and 2015 life expectancy
fell in the US, the first time this has happened since 1993, at
the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Life expectancy at birth decreased 0.1 years, from 78.9 years
in 2014 to 78.8 years in 2015. This leaves the United States
behind Cuba and Costa Rica and well behind Japan,
Germany, France and other industrialized countries where
life expectancy is still on the rise.
In 2015, just over 2.7 million deaths were registered in the US
—86,212, or 1.2 percent, more than in 2014. White males and
females and black males experienced higher death rates last
year.
After declining for years, deaths increased from heart disease
and stroke, as well as from chronic lower respiratory
diseases, Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes. Mortality also
rose from kidney disease, unintentional injuries and suicide.
The report also showed a rise in the infant mortality rate,
from 582.1 infant deaths per 100,000 live births in 2014, to
589.5 in 2015. The US already ranks 26th out of the 35
nations in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) in infant mortality. For infant deaths,
the economically hard hit industrial states like Ohio and West
Virginia rank just above the traditionally poorest states in
the Deep South.
“These figures are very disturbing,” University of
Pennsylvania sociology professor Irma T. Elo told the World
Socialist Web Site. “Life expectancy declined for those under
the age of 65, particularly from unintentional accidents, and
that may be related to drug-induced mortality. Unintentional
and suicide had already increased from 2013 to 2014, and the
trend continued last year.”
“Life expectancy is declining in the US but not in other
developed countries,” Professor Ilo added. “The US does a
very poor job on this. If you look at the disparities in life
expectancy according to income and in parts of the country
where there has been a loss of jobs, this might give you the
greatest clues as to why this disturbing downward trend is
happening.”
A study by Harvard professors published in the Journal of
the American Medical Association in April 2016 found a 15-
year difference between the life expectancy of men in the
richest 1 percent of the population and those in the poorest 1
percent. For women, the gap was 10 years. Life expectancy
for the most impoverished American men is roughly the same
as it is in Sudan and Pakistan.
The Harvard study also found that low life expectancy is not
concentrated in the Deep South, but is prevalent across the
so-called Rust Belt states in the US Midwest. These are
the areas where Trump was able to able to
exploit immense social anger over decades of
deindustrialization, declining living standards
and the Democrats’ hostility to the social
concerns of working-class voters.
The decline in life expectancy is a verdict on
eight years of the Obama administration.
Obama’s signature domestic “reform,” the
Affordable Care Act, has, in fact, made access
to adequate heath care even less affordable
for workers whose real wages have stagnated
or fallen since Obama’s “economic recovery”
began in 2009.
The past eight years are a continuation of a decades-long
process of social counter-revolution. The American ruling
class never reconciled itself to the gains won by workers
during the “labor wars” waged by industrial workers between
the 1930s and 1970s. The right to employer-paid health care
and pension benefits, along with Medicare and Medicaid, led
to a great improvement in life expectancy, which rose from
59.7 in 1930 to 69.7 in 1960 and to 77 by 2000.
The class war policies initiated under the
Democratic Carter administration (1977-81)
and accelerated under the Reagan years
(1981-89) were aimed at clawing back
everything the working class had achieved. In
the face of this, the United Auto Workers,
United Steelworkers and other unions
abandoned any resistance, transforming
themselves into appendages of corporate
management. In the name of making
American capitalism “more competitive,” the
unions sabotaged every struggle by workers
to defend their jobs and living standards.
By the mid-2000s, there was a steady drumbeat of
complaints within corporate and political circles that workers
were living too long, and that defined-benefit programs—
i.e., employer-paid pensions and health care—were
unaffordable.
Summing up the attitude of the ruling class, Steve Miller, the
CEO of automotive parts maker Delphi, declared in 2005,
“Back in the days when you worked for one employer till age
65 and then died at age 70, and when health care was
unsophisticated and inexpensive, the social contract inherent
in defined-benefit programs perhaps made some economic
sense.”
He continued, “People are living longer these days. And
medical science is rapidly expanding the capability to spend
vast amounts of money keeping you alive for decades. Of
course, that is a good thing. But the question is, how can we
afford it?” Similarly, Miller said, the government could no
long sustain Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
The Obama administration was tasked with
carrying out the unfinished businesses from
the Reagan years, particularly in sharply
reducing health care costs for corporate
America by shifting the burden to workers
and driving them into substandard plans that
would shorten their lives.
The incoming Trump administration is assembling a
government of billionaires, generals and ultra-reactionaries
committed to dismantling whatever restraints on the
exploitation of the working class remain. Trump’s pick for the
US Department of Health and Human Services, Georgia
Representative Tom Price, is a longstanding opponent of
Medicare and Medicaid. These government health insurance
programs for the elderly, the handicapped and the poor
cover a combined total of 130 million people, or nearly half
of the US population.
Price’s appointment is part of a scheme to use the total or
partial repeal of Obamacare to begin the dismantling of both
Medicare and Medicaid as government-run, universal
entitlement programs, and their transformation into voucher
programs, in which seniors and poor people would be given
government subsidies that would cover only a fraction of the
cost of private insurance.
SOARING POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER OBAMA
"These figures present a scathing indictment
of the social order that prevails in America, the world’s wealthiest country,
whose government proclaims itself to be the globe’s leading democracy. They are
just one manifestation of the human toll taken by the vast and all-pervasive
inequality and mass poverty
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS TO SERVE THE SUPER RICH:
The slow and painful death of America that
dominates American society."
THE OBAMA SOLUTION TO END
WHITE CHRISTIAN AMERICA:
DRUG ADDICTION!!!
MEXICO: AMERICA’S DRUG
DEALER!
“This study follows
reports released over the past several months
documenting rising mortality
rates among US workers due to drug
addiction and suicide, high rates of infant
mortality, an overall
leveling off of life expectancy, and a growing gap
between the life
expectancy of the bottom rung of income earners compared to
those at the top.”
America’s Looming Economic Armageddon
– Can the Rich Get Even Richer During the Meltdown? Haven’t they looted us into
bankruptcy?
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS
FOR THE RICH:
On
behalf of bankster-owned Barack Obama, Yellen vows to the rich and crony
banksters that they will be protected and subsidized with no strings bailouts
during the next looming economic meltdown around the corner from elections.
“In fact, these policies have
already produced financial and asset bubbles that are unsustainable, and there
are increasing signs of financial instability and crisis. There are growing
warnings that the spread of negative interest rates is leading to a new
financial meltdown even worse than the disaster that struck eight years ago.”
"The same period has
seen a massive growth of social inequality, with income and wealth concentrated
at the very top of American society to an extent not seen since the
1920s."
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS:
Build the La Raza Democrat Party base with open
borders, no ID to vote Democrat, no E-VERIFY and NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED TO APPLY.
Keeping wages DEPRESSED with endless hordes of
looting Mexicans invading keeps these corrupt politicians’ paymasters on Wall
Street generous$.
"Republicans
should call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment.
But more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order
to offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their
fellow Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."
MILLIONS OF AMERICAN
JOBS HANDED OVER TO ILLEGALS ALONG WITH BILLIONS IN WELFARE.... AND THE PARTY
HAS JUST BEGUN!
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
PLATFORM:
NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED
APPLY!
VIVA
LA RAZA FASCISM? THEN VOTE DEM!
"Republicans should
call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment. But
more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order to
offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their fellow
Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."
AMERICA’S
YOUTH STARVE
FOR EIGHT
YEARS BARACK OBAMA AND HIS HAREM OF CORRUPT DEM POLS HAVE SABOTAGED OUR BORDERS TO EASE TENS OF MILLIONS
OF ILLEGALS INTO OUR JOBS, WELFARE OFFICES AND VOTING BOOTHS.
What
is left for Legals is only the tax bills for La Raza's looting!
The
new reports show that in addition to “traditional” coping strategies of
skipping meals and
eating cheap food, these teens and pre-teens are increasingly
forced into shoplifting, stealing,
selling drugs, joining a gang, or selling their bodies for money
in a struggle to eat properly.
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