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Originally Posted by aceventura3
When you write "things are getting worse", that is difficult to challenge because a time frame has not been defined. However, over the long-term things are getting better by some measurements.
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Americans' life expectancy reached a record high of 78.1 years in 2006, with disparities among ethnic groups and between the sexes generally narrowing, according to government data released yesterday.
The death rates from most diseases went down, with influenza mortality falling steeply and AIDS mortality marking its 10th straight year of decline. Infant mortality in 2006 also fell from the previous year, continuing a trend stretching back nearly 50 years.
Life Expectancy Hits Record High in United States - washingtonpost.com |
We are 50th, If we keep improving we may catch up to Canada (8th) and France (9th) in 50 or 60 years. Of course maybe their universal heathcare systems in comparison to ours will cause them to gain or loose ground faster.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat.../2102rank.html