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appalachiablue

(41,138 posts) Sat Mar 23, 2024, 06:56 PM Mar 23

Working -Age Americans Dying At Much Higher Rates Than Peers In Other Wealthy Nations; Homeless

US News, March 22, 2024. (HealthDay News)

Working stiffs in the United States are dying at higher rates than those in other wealthy nations, a new study finds. Death rates among working-age Americans are 2.5 times higher than the average of other high-income countries, researchers report in the March 21 issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology.

These deaths among people ages 25 to 64 are being driven by car crashes, homicides, suicides, drug overdoses and other highly preventable causes, researchers said. For example, drug-related deaths increased up to tenfold between 2000 and 2019, a trend diverging dramatically from other countries.

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Over the past three decades, midlife mortality in the U.S. has worsened significantly compared to other high-income countries, and for the younger 25- to 44-year-old age-group in 2019 it even surpassed midlife mortality rates for Central and Eastern European countries,” said researcher Katarzyna Doniec, a postdoctoral researcher with the Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford.

“This is surprising, given that not so long ago some of these countries experienced high levels of working-age mortality, resulting from the post-socialist crisis of the 1990s,” Doniec added in a university news release. For the study, researchers used annual death data gathered by the World Health Organization between 1990 and 2019. The data included 15 major causes of death in 18 high-income countries, including the United States, the U.K. and seven central and eastern European nations...
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-03-22/working-age-americans-are-dying-at-much-higher-rates-than-peers-in-other-wealthy-nations#:~:text='Over%20the%20past%20three%20decades,researcher%20Katarzyna%20Doniec%2C%20a%20postdoctoral
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- Why Life Expectancy in the US is Falling,
Harvard Health. COVID-19 and drug overdoses are the biggest contributors. Oct. 20, 2022
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-life-expectancy-in-the-us-is-falling-202210202835

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Working -Age Americans Dying At Much Higher Rates Than Peers In Other Wealthy Nations; Homeless (Original Post) appalachiablue Mar 23 OP

Where are Republicans to complain about the loss of these workers? bucolic_frolic Mar 23 #1

If the GOP was concerned it they wouldn't obstruct appalachiablue Mar 23 #2

And don't forget the GOP wants to raise the age for SS and Medicare. Brenda Mar 24 #3

bucolic_frolic

(43,173 posts)

1. Where are Republicans to complain about the loss of these workers?

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Sat Mar 23, 2024, 07:28 PM

Mar 23

Replacing them with babies takes 20-40 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars. And the deceased statistically must wreak havoc on actuarial tables and insurance companies.

appalachiablue

(41,138 posts)

2. If the GOP was concerned it they wouldn't obstruct

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 23, 2024, 08:19 PM

Mar 23

efforts to improve the grim conditions here and the deteriorating standard of living for many Americans. Instead of contributing to it. What's it going to take.

Life has always been cheap to some of course, and lower skilled labor easy to obtain. But the path of destruction, the deep divisions and the dangerous deterioration of democracy here can't continue.

The dire issues have to be acknowledged, people must become better informed, and vote. It is obvious that structural change to strengthen America is critical and greater than I've ever seen in my lifetime. I hope I'll be around to witness some of it.

Senator Ted Kennedy's iconic speech on raising the minimum wage, Senate floor, Jan. 2007.

Brenda

(1,059 posts)

3. And don't forget the GOP wants to raise the age for SS and Medicare.

Reply to appalachiablue (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 24, 2024, 06:52 AM

Mar 24

Because (big lie) people are living longer. Also, drugs (even opioids) are still handed out like candy and considered the default way to handle any kind of physical or mental issue in this country. Big Pharma plays a big part in wrecking our country.

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