Graph showing life expectancy in a variety of countries going back to 1980. All the other countries show a steady increase in life expectancy, with a dip during the global pandemic. In the graph for America, it started to plateau around 2010, then following the pandemic, the graph just keep going down farther and farther.

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1. Tofu Golem (tofugolem@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 19:13:21 JST Tofu Golem

   I looked for a graph of American deaths per year due to lack of healthcare going back to the passing of the ACA to make a point, but I couldn't find anything that was quite exactly right. Sorry.

   Around the time ACA/Obamacare passed, the news articles talked about 40k Americans dying per year.

   In the current debate about Brian Thompson and Luigi Mangione, similar sources say 60k. Some on independent media are saying 100k.

   I don't have good sources for this. Sorry.

   https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy

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