Mean Age at Death

Post #884

Even though public polling showed majority disapproval for the Affordable Care Act at the time that it was first being vigorously debated:

… it was still pushed through — against majority public opinion at the time.

Of the early polls, the one on October 2011 was particularly negative:

One fear at the time was that it would lead to “death panels” — where certain Americans would be allowed to die in order to make the system of socialized medicine more financially sustainable. No evidence of official death panels has ever surfaced, but look at the mean age at death for Americans ever since 2013:

Evidence suggests that allowing the U.S. government to have more control over the practice of medicine and healthcare results in people dying younger. The U.S. Constitution never granted the U.S. government any control over medicine, or even over public health. Thomas Jefferson even joked at how foolish it would be:

“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.”

The last decade in the USA — including instances when doctor prescriptions for items such as ivermectin were denied (not filled) — has made it clear that the government should not be allowed to interfere with the practice of medicine, and that, instead, the doctor-patient relationship should be restored and held inviolable.

The present path that we are on — where we die at younger and younger ages — is dark and grim, and we need to get off of it before even more harm is caused.

Reference

[count of deaths by narrow age bands*] — OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-deaths-by-age?time=2012&country=~USA

*midpoints were found for each age band, and a top age of 108 was used for the top age band (100-108) — resulting in a midpoint age of 104 for that top age band:

[Gallup polls on Affordable Care Act] — Gallup. https://news.gallup.com/poll/327431/affordable-care-act-approval-tied-high.aspx

[KFF polls on Affordable Care Act] — KFF. https://www.kff.org/interactive/kff-health-tracking-poll-the-publics-views-on-the-aca

[Thomas Jefferson joking about how stupid it would be to have government in charge of healthcare] — Thomas Jefferson. Notes on the State of Virginia. Page 169-170. https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/jefferson/jefferson.html