'From 2020 to 2021, life expectancy continued to decline in the U.S. while rebounding in most comparable countries!' But why? Now post COVID it is 6 years shorter! Why? America spends many times more
per-person on healthcare than other nations especially other 1st world richer countries, yet we have much shorter life expectancy! Why? As we spend more, life expectancy goes down in US? How?
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-life-expectancy-compare-countries/
‘Life expectancy in the U.S. and peer countries generally increased from 1980-2019, but decreased in most countries in 2020 due to COVID-19. From 2020 to 2021, life expectancy at birth began to rebound in most comparable countries while it continued to decline in the U.S. The CDC estimates life expectancy at birth in the U.S. decreased to 76.4 years in 2021, down 2.4 years from 78.8 years in 2019 and down 0.6 years from 2020. The average life expectancy at birth among comparable countries was 82.3 years in 2021, down 0.3 years from 2019 and up 0.2 years from 2020. Life expectancy varies considerably within the U.S., though life expectancy in all U.S. states falls below the average for comparable countries.’
In 1980, life expectancy at birth in the U.S. and in comparably large and wealthy countries was similar, but over recent decades, life expectancy has improved by much more in peer nations than it has in the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased mortality and premature death rates in the U.S. by more than it did in most peer countries, widening a gap that already existed before the pandemic.
This chart collection examines how life expectancy in the U.S. compares to that of other similarly large and wealthy countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This analysis uses final 2021 data to assess how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected life expectancy in the U.S. compared to peer countries.
Life expectancy in the U.S. fell by 2.4 years from 2019 to 2021, whereas in peer countries’ life expectancies fell by an average of just 0.3 years in this period. COVID-19 has erased two decades of life expectancy growth in the U.S., whereas the average life expectancy for comparable countries has decreased only marginally, to 2018 levels.
The U.S. has the lowest life expectancy among large, wealthy countries while it far outspends its peers on healthcareCLICK TO TWEET
From 2020 to 2021, life expectancy continued to decline in the U.S. while rebounding in most comparable countries
2016 NPR ran a story on the declining life expectancy. The decline has been years in the making all by design. Hospice has been a cash cow used to eliminate expense by CMS guidelines using QALY scoring. Non terminal patients are sentenced to Hospice, fed drugs to slow respiration while changing nutrition and hydration to a “treatment” code requiring a script. Elderly & chronically are viewed as an expense so in the false guise of “compassion” are medically executed. Covid just brought the process of execution to the mainstream attention.
What health care? There is not any care for people’s health.
My husband passed out in the airport in LA. I took him to emergency. I won’t enter in the details of incompetency, mediocrity, toxic food (jello with yellow 5 in it), wrong approaches and useless procedures. They milked in 2 days 70,000 from the insurance company and few thousands from us. Doing NOTHING but a colonoscopy and an endoscopy. After short time we received an envelope from HHS to submit a feedback…about how clean the hospital was, if we were satisfied with the nice grin of the staff, if they were polite…. Mind blowing! A joke! A bad joke. This is health care?