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ATLANTA — U.S. life expectancy has hit another all-time high, rising above 78 years. The estimate of 78 years and 2 months is for a baby born in 2009, and comes from a preliminary report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 2.4 million people died in the United States in 2009 – roughly 36,000 fewer deaths than the year before.
Deaths were down for a range of causes, from heart disease to homicide, so experts don't believe there's one simple explanation for the increase in life expectancy. Better medical treatment, vaccination campaigns and public health measures against smoking are believed to be having an impact.
U.S. life expectancy has been generally increasing since at least the 1940s, though some years it held steady and a few times it temporarily dipped.
Previously, the CDC said a one-month dip occurred in 2008 to 77 years and 11 months. But in Wednesday's report, the agency corrected that to 78 years, attributing the glitch to a computer programming error.
Yeah dude…big whoop we are THIRTY FOURTH in life expectancy.
34th!!!! …one notch above ALBANIA…BIG WHOOP!
All those socialized medicine countries like CANADA & ENGLAND are ahead of us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
O Hey, its the stuff you read about in sociology 101, but with a large question mark instead of citing sources.
* – George A. Kaplan et al., "Inequality in income and mortality in the United States: analysis of mortality and potential pathways," British Medical Journal Vol. 312 (April 20, 1996), pp. 999-1003.
* – Bruce P. Kennedy et al., "Income distribution and mortality: cross sectional ecological study of the Robin Hood index in the United States," British Medical Journal Vol. 312 (April 20, 1996), pp. 1004-1007.
shows how out of the loop you are.
Must be the pills developed by the greedy Pharmaceutical companies at the root of this. How dare they make a profit on extending life!
Well, of c ourse, life expectancy has been going up since the "Black Death".
The question would be — how does th US stack up against other developed nations.
Dude, if your AV is you and wife/girlfriend, you are looking like you both should be laying off the buffet at the Sizzler.
Even with our awful healthcare?
It went from being ‘really, really bad’ to ‘really bad.’
What these statistics don’t say that if you included the nearly 1 million babies murdered each year the life expectancy of a human life in the US would be about 45
For those looking to blame one political party or the other for the US only being 36th, look around you. We are the fattest nation on earth. Don’t believe me? Travel. Anywhere. I have. Nobody is as fat as we are. Fat kills. Simple as that. Put the fork down and DO something. Anything. Especially the kids.
Did you read the article? Infant mortality DROPPED 3%
The obesity from sittiing and gaming and tweeting will bring these numbers back down. Can’t make little Johnny and Latisha exercise in school but we can force feed then that Sharika has two mommies.
All of you "we’re 36th" people should research how that number is calculated…you will be shocked!
We’re 36 BUT we have a higher life expectancy?…This should be your first clue that something doesn’t add up! It is all outcome based….do the research folks!
You have been lied to about our health care system!
I’m gonna blow the curve sky-high with my life-expectancy of 130.
Sorry friend but it’s not just republicans that create a fiscal climate of that nature. Look at how much the Democrats want to pay the military boys. They hack and slash their pay and benefits, add additional rules. They attack small military towns like mine. Republicans aren’t the only bad guys. Both sides of the area are worthless and if you think they care about you…think again. They care about themselves.
Can’s say I disagree with you on the fat part, but did you know we are only 47th in terms of infant mortality?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html
Dramatic? Life expectancy is just an objective measure that reflects a number of things about a culture. The article said 78 years was our highest level ever. If failed to mention where this placed us relative to the rest of the world.
6 years is over half a day each week for 78 years.
6 years is the time it takes for a new born to finish the first grade.
6 years is long enough to get an undergraduate and graduate degree.
6 years is a long time to spend in prison.
Could I have your 6 years?
Almost everyone who pays into Social Security is productive.
Raising the wage cap would enable the higher earner to pay their fair share, but their benefits should not go up because they already live longer and draw the biggest benefits. That is the reason the wage cap should be raised.
Depending on how much they raise the wage cap, if it is a lot more, then they could get more benefits in a progressive way.
…All the preservatives in our food is paying off.
I’m pretty old [58] well, i feel pretty old. The only doctors i’ve been to in my life that were worth a damn were the ones that WOULD have been civil servants. The ones that cared about their patients. The ones that are in it for the money, are either script doctors, or don’t care if they help you, because if they did that, the well would run dry. Most doctors don’t try to cure patients, they just treat symptoms which keeps you coming back over, and over again. The super rich [like dick Cheney] will always buy better health care than the rest of us can afford. The rich are holding out a carrot and a stick to the middle class, saying " Come on, You can do it!" Getting you to ruin your health working yourself to death in order to get rich to save your health…lol! The closest way to good health care for all is a standard national health plan. we will never have health care in america as good as the rich. After all, they ARE controlling things.
Highest life expectancy and a fast growing infant mortality rate to rival a third world country! Something to be proud of?
We should use them for inspiration. It’s been the biggest business buzzword for the past decade: Be Agile. They are, we’re not. We are too big and have too many differing opinions. It takes us way to long to pass and implement anything. They are small and quick. They can get stuff passed and implemented fast; and when it doesn’t work right, they quickly change it so it does. They can test and flush out the bad ideas at a rate we could only dream of.
Look at our health care bill and how long it took to pass. Not even including past attempts at health care reform, it still took almost two years to pass. On top of that it won’t get fully implemented for almost a decade. Give it 5 years before we can figure out what parts don’t work, another 2 years to pass fixes, 5 years to get those implemented, and we are taking almost 2040 before we have workable health care reform.
We are stuck in an environment where we have to swing for the fences and hit a home run every time. That’s not a good place to be.
Too bad they will have to work that long, too.
It is on a life span of 60-80 years. It’s a +-10% difference.
At least we managed to beat the countries that have no health care system. That’d be sad if we managed to lose that one…
In the Useless States first you must find a job in order to retire at 65 or 67.
Good luck with that for many people who are tapping their 401k at age 50+ already.
…yeh but at least we have the bestest military.
I don’t think you should have posted this, the power elite and the mental deficient geniuses, Savantes, are are already trying to kiill us off after age 60, this will just make them mad. They sit around Hotel rooms now trying to figure out ways to do it, I think Obama care will take care of that, the farm safety act with the codex bill in it should really do the job. This is also a good time to rethink immigration, when you empty out a whole groups of people and put them in other countries it just makes it more crowded there, I don’t see why the UN is not importing Mexicans and Muslims to Northernn Africa and the Congo, they will bring expertise and money and work ethic to the continent, they can start businesses, creating jobs there an build mosques for the downtrodden who have to pray in the dirt. The UN said "Norway is too white", well Africa is too black, they need some mixing up , The UN is starting to look a little racist.Send some Irish there or Scotch, that should do it as long as we are socially engineering, sounds good to me. Why haven’t they tried to import Americans and Canadians there? We feel a little left out, it’s so one sided..