This article starts out by pointing out that American life expectancy has increased from 70 to 77.5 over the last half century or so, and points out that this (along with a lack of increase in health span) means increased medical care, and corresponding costs. But, sadly, this is old news. American life expectancy is in free fall right now [0], down more than three and a half years over the past five. We're already back to 1996 levels, and at this rate will be back to the 1970s levels that the article uses as its starting point by the end of this decade.
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Based on the paper S. Jay Olshansky et al., "Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century", Nature Aging (2024)
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This article starts out by pointing out that American life expectancy has increased from 70 to 77.5 over the last half century or so, and points out that this (along with a lack of increase in health span) means increased medical care, and corresponding costs. But, sadly, this is old news. American life expectancy is in free fall right now [0], down more than three and a half years over the past five. We're already back to 1996 levels, and at this rate will be back to the 1970s levels that the article uses as its starting point by the end of this decade.
[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819...