09-01-2023, 03:47 PM
(09-01-2023, 09:15 AM)pally Wrote: You can’t ignore the health care expenditures it has a direct impact on life expectancy
1) lack of universal healthcare
2) unfettered gun violence affecting younger people
3) opioid and other substance abuse
Not enough people die from these things to move the needle 5 years. And "lack of universal healthcare" is not a mortality stat tracked anywhere that I can find. Curious if this is speculation (which we all do) or if you came across some hard data.
I did some actual napkin math based upon
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/guns/data-details/#:~:text=Gun%2Drelated%20assault%20death%20rates,males%20age%2075%20and%20older.
and
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/drugoverdoses/data-details/
If you just eliminate guns and opioids (and other substances) from the world as if they never existed, it would move the needle MAYBE a year?
