US Life Expectancy Slipped As Recession Took Hold

[XanaDUer]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40578643/ns/health-aging/

Life expectancy in the United States dropped in 2008, the first full year of a grueling recession that saw mixed effects, both good and bad, on the nation’s health, according to new government data.
Overall life expectancy fell to 77.8 years, down slightly from 77.9 in 2007, the year that the recession began, and below a record high of 78.1 years in 2006. In a country like the U.S., the drop is small but ominous, public health experts said.
“The decline in life expectancy is a wake-up call,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. “It is a call for action.”

[tridim]

1. Stress kills. Unfortunately. nt

[spinbaby]

3. So does lack of medical care

And we have the most expensive and inaccessible medical sytem in the world.

[villager]

2. so the elites are, literally, killing us

But then, I guess we knew that.

[somone]

4. RW will applaud this as health care savings

[bemildred]

5. Boy is that a "tell". nt