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It's one thing when government raises your taxes, suffocates your business with regulations, or censors your tweets. It's far worse when government is to blame for actually shortening your life.
U.S. life expectancy dropped to 76.4 years, the lowest in 25 years, according to new federal data. Americans should be gasping. What could be more important than having the chance to live a long life?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) repeatedly has blown its responses to health killers like fentanyl, COVID, and lung cancer. All the while, life expectancy gets shorter and shorter.
In 1980, Americans had one of the best life expectancies in the world. Since then, the United States has lost ground. People live several years longer in France, Switzerland, Italy, and other highly developed countries, reaching ages 83 or 84 on average. Residents of the Czech Republic, Chile, and Slovenia can expect longer lives than Americans. Even before COVID, the U.S. ranked 29th in life expectancy, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)....