Betsy McCaughey – Yikes! America’s Life is Getting Shorter

It’s one thing for government to raise your taxes, make your business more restrictive or block your tweets. It’s worse when the government is responsible for actually shortening you life.

According to new federal data, Americans’ life expectancy has fallen to 76.4, which is the lowest in 25-years. Americans should gasp. What is more important than living a long and healthy life?

Repeatedly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has failed to respond to health-killers like lung cancer, COVID, and fentanyl. As a result, the life expectancy keeps getting shorter.

The United States had the longest life expectancy in the world, with an average of 58 years. The U.S. is now losing ground. France, Switzerland and Italy have a longer life expectancy than the United States. On average, they live to 83 years or 84. Americans can live longer lives in Slovenia, Chile, and the Czech Republic than they can in the United States. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the U.S. was 29th in terms of life expectancy before COVID.

The virus has only increased the already alarming divide between the U.S.A., and other nations.

While life expectancy is rising in these countries, American lives are still being cut short by other causes.

Let’s start with the failure of the government, particularly the CDC to address the leading cause for death among Americans ages 18-49: overdosing. Fentanyl is responsible for two-thirds of all these deaths.

Nearly 107,000 Americans died from overdoses in 2021. That’s almost 50% more than the two-year average.

Is there a campaign to stop fentanyl-related deaths? The U.S. has launched several media campaigns that have been wildly successful over the past half-century to discourage Americans from smoking. The CDC has done little to combat this new killer.

Blame the agency for its mission confusion. As of September 2021