US in Neoliberal Death Spiral ¦ There are counties in the U.S. where you’re beating the odds if you make it past 70, writes Richard Eskow. The country should stop tinkering around. It needs Medicare for All.

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[–]sdl5 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The study, featured the fall 2023 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, found that life expectancy increased for both educational groups between 1992 and 2010.

In 2010, a 25-year-old without a four-year college degree could expect to live about another 54 years, or to 79 compared to 58 extra years for a person of the same age with a bachelor’s degree, or 83 according to the study.

But in the lead-up to the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy had largely stagnated for those without a degree even as it continued to go up slightly for those with a degree.

By 2019, life expectancy for the latter group had slightly increased to about 59 years past the age of 25, or about 84 years in total, while it dropped slightly for the former, moving closer to 53 additional years, or 78 years total.

Then, during the pandemic, life expectancy shortened for both groups — but more for those without a degree, further expanding the gap. By 2021, a person without a four-year degree was only expected to live another 50, while a person with a degree could still expect to live about another 58.

[–]yaiyen 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Will never happen, Bernie was the only person who could have maybe gotten medicare for all 2016 but Americans decide to go with Biden in the primary. There will never be a next time. The reason i am saying this is because social media don`t have same reach like 2016 and most anti establishment channels have being banned or sell out. The elites learn their mistakes, they realize how important social media is, sad that the average person memory is like a chicken. The only thing what scare me in this is USA war machine will get even more dangerous, they have to let out people anger somewhere else and that is Russia and China

[–]BerryBoy1969It's not red vs. blue - It's capital vs. you 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Our owners government exists for the sole purpose of ensuring that their investors profit extraction, is never threatened by the will of the people through the democratic process.

Having witnessed, and survived our owners PMC's embrace of "The Science" of profit extraction, behind the veil of a deadly pandemic that was 99% survivable, who would trust highly trained and educated medical professionals employed by the for profit Medical Insurance Hospital Groups in these Corporate States of America, not to embrace "The Science* of our owners once again?

Meanwhile, in the greatest demockracy the world has ever been the victim of, people still fight each other over which of our owners private political corporations will be the firewall in power, protecting their owners from us.

YCMTSU...

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are many places in USA with a life expectancy under 60. Meanwhile, the ultra-rich average over 90.

[–]unagisongsBurn down Reddit! 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

M4A is the cherry on the top cake.

First we need the cake.

Making the cake is going to take breaking some ugly faces.

[–]RandomCollection[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://archive.ph/sXVe1

In many ways, the US is experiencing some of the problems the USSR experienced in the past, under Boris Yeltsin, the US puppet.