SF Chronicle: Gap in life expectancy of rich, poor widens

[El Pinko]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/23/MN02VOTS1.DTL



Gap in life expectancy of rich, poor widens
Robert Pear, New York Times
Sunday, March 23, 2008

(03-23) 04:00 PDT Washington - --
New government research has found "large and growing" disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the past two decades. Life expectancy for the nation as a whole has increased, the researchers said, but affluent people have experienced greater gains, and this, in turn, has caused a widening gap.
One of the researchers, Gopal Singh, a demographer at the Department of Health and Human Services, said "the growing inequalities in life expectancy" mirrored trends in infant mortality and in death from heart disease and certain cancers.
The gaps have been increasing despite efforts by the federal government to reduce them. One of the top goals of "Healthy People 2010," an official statement of national health objectives issued in 2000, is to "eliminate health disparities among different segments of the population," including higher- and lower-income groups and people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Singh said last week that federal officials had found "widening socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy" at birth and at every age level.




:-( :mad: :puke: :grr: :cry:


I guess it's presumptuous for us little people who work for a living to want to live beyond 70...

[BlueFireAnt]

1. There's a shocker.

Could it be beacaus e they can afford to pay for insurance and health care costs. That is the reason why health care is so expensive. It's the least conspicuous way to thin the herd. Survival of the richest.

[Igel]

3. Partly so.

But there's also a correlation between health/education and education/income.

But I'm not going to agree with the 'thinning the herd' business. Like the 'genocide' committed by Israel, it's apparently a particularly incompetent 'thinning the herd'.

Education/birthrate and income/birthrate also show strong, albeit negative, correlations.

[leftofthedial]

2. life is a commodity

capitalism exists purely to cheapen commodities.

[BadgerLaw2010]

4. Wasn't there some hypothesis that humans would split into elves and orcs a few months ago?

[Javaman]

5. Coming to a Rich only dept store near you: Disposable Humans!! nt

[dysfunctional press]

6. if the economic gap keeps widening, look for it to suddenly drop sharply...

kinda like the blade on a guillotine does.

those french- always the trendsetters.