U.S. life expectancy goes up for the first time since 2014

[jmyrlefuller]

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/u-s-life-expectancy-goes-first-time-2014-n1125776

Life expectancy in the United States went up for the first time in four years in 2018, thanks largely to a decrease in death rates from cancer and drug overdoses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

Rates of death for six of the country’s 10 leading causes of death dropped for the first time since 2014; the decline in cancer death rates and unintentional injury rates — a category that involves drug overdoses — accounted for nearly half of the decline. Drug overdose death rates, in particular, went down for the first time in nearly three decades.

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[Applewood]

Much of this comes from our far superior health care system.  Yet there are those who want to make our health care system like Cuba's because it's "free."