Ron DeSantis counts on shorter lifespans to help with senior entitlement crisis

[RandySF]

Gov. Ron DeSantis says people aren’t living as long as they used to, so that should help protect them from losing Social Security and Medicare protections when they get old.

“It should reflect life expectancy and what we’ve had in this country is a pretty significant decline in life expectancy. And so given those circumstances to raise (qualifying ages), it would be cutting against where the demographics are going. So that’s not going to happen,” the Governor said in Iowa Saturday.

DeSantis made the comments during a Never Back Down event in Garner, and they continue a theme of recent vintage where he has noted that people are dying at younger ages than they did years back.

During an interview earlier this month, the Florida Governor told CNBC viewers that “in the last five or six years, life expectancy in the United States has gone down.”

He did not blame it solely on the COVID-19 pandemic, even after his interviewer’s prompting.





https://floridapolitics.com/archives/631089-desantis-life-expectancy/

[Eugene]

1. Damn! I was hoping this came from the Onion.

This is just plain evil.

[KentuckyWoman]

2. The reason life expectancy got longer

Is because provide a basic income and medical care actually works. Countries with better senior "entitlements" have even longer life expectancy.

And yes, from the start of covid, it was made clear the GOP just wants all the grandmas to just die already.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

4. Your last statement is spot-on correct.

I still remember that chilling statement from that walking pile of shit Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick about how elderly citizens should be willing to die for the economy during the COVID-19 crisis.

[Freethinker65]

3. The retirement State Governor promotes encouraging deaths of the elderly from preventable diseases.

[struggle4progress]

5. "Y'all gotta tell Granny to vote for me, so we can help her die sooner!"

[Bev54]

6. Does the idiot understand that covid brought down the average age of death?

[Mad_Machine76]

7. With the Republicans continuing to be in charge

Life expectancy will decline considerably, especially given they don’t believe in public health, Gun safety laws, and climate change.

[riversedge]

8. The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy

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The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years’ Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy

COVID and overdose deaths have sharply cut U.S. life expectancy, with Indigenous peoples experiencing the biggest decline

By Tanya Lewis on October 17, 2022





The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-just-lost-26-years-worth-of-progress-on-life-expectancy/


Credit: Amanda Montañez; Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

With a few notable exceptions—such as during the 1918 influenza pandemic, World War II and the HIV crisis—life expectancy in the U.S. has had a gradual upward trajectory over the past century. But that progress has steeply reversed in the past two years as COVID and other tragedies have cut millions of lives short.

U.S. life expectancy fell by a total of 2.7 years between 2019 and 2021 to 76.1 years—the lowest it has been since 1996, according to provisional data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The drop was 3.1 years for male individuals and 2.3 years for female ones. Non-Hispanic Native American and Alaska Native peoples saw the biggest decline—a staggering 6.6 years. But every racial and ethnic group suffered: life expectancy decreased by 4.2 years in the Hispanic population, by four years in the non-Hispanic Black population, by 2.4 years in the non-Hispanic white population and by 2.1 years in the non-Hispanic Asian population...................



COVID deaths drove much of the decline as the country grappled with the world’s worst pandemic in a century. .......................................


Line chart shows U.S. life expectancy at birth by sex from 1980 to 2021.
Credit: Amanda Montañez; Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

“Basically, all the gains between 1996 and 2019 are as if they never happened,” says Elizabeth Arias, director of the U.S. life table program at the NCHS and co-author of a report on the new data..................