This is GOOD news. Is means that Obama's changing of America that so infuriated the nutjob right that it drove the dumb, gasbag,  fatboys to early graves. I'm celebrating tonight.

Good old American exceptionalism at work.

The only way to improve the health of ALL Americans is to take the profit out of health care and go to a single payer system like all other industrialized counties have done. A sick population not only kills our citizens, it kills our economic competitiveness as well.

way to go obama, the guy's in office one year and people start dropping like flies.

It's probably all that low fat and unsaturated fat stuff that the government has been pushing that's killing us earlier.

No, it's the GMO crops, aspartame soda, high-fructose corn syrup, fluoride in the water, mercury-laden vaccines, and all the other pharmaceuticals rammed down our throats by global corporations and their fascist government salesman.

It's nature's way of shoring up Social Security.

Not the recession! Try Fast Food Super Size me menues!!!!!!!!!!!

Another reason to thank the Bush folks for bringing us crushing financial difficulties in years past, the medical establishment has run rampant. When seniors have to decide between spending their money on medicine or food we are asking for trouble.

So let's applaud the millionaires in Congress, who get free health care thanks to the taxpayers, and who really don't give a damn how many seniors die. If they are too sick to go out and vote then they don't pose a threat. What a great country we live in...this is insane!

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Stress causes early death - and this country has become stressful to survive

With the recession people cannot afford the same quality and quantity of healthy food. I spoke with a woman in the store the other day who was stocking up on cheap food to feed her family of four. She was just trying to make her food dollars stretch so she was buying the cheapest hot dogs to provide protein, the cheapest brand of macaroni and cheese to fill them up. She said that she couldn't afford fresh fruit and vegetables. She sounded so depressed but grateful her husband and her were both working although she said they were each working two part-time jobs. They have gone through their savings. While we spoke I was reminded of how hard it is so for seniors because we didn't get a cost of living increase last year and won't get one this year. I know seniors who are cutting back on food to save money. Sad, considering how fragile older folks can be.

Wal-Mart has their giving trees up and numerous tags (more than I remember in the past) are still up. People just don't have the money to spare. This is the first year we can't afford to help either. No Christmas gifts for our grandchildren. No money for gifts at all. We told our children we just don't have it to spare.

People are forgoing medical care because they cannot afford co-pays (if they have insurance).

People work longer hours in hopes of retaining their jobs (if they are lucky enough to have one) or are pounding the pavement praying for a job.

The stress alone is detrimental to one's health.

And while all of this is happening the GOP is worried about tax breaks for the rich and refused the $250 for seniors. Thanks for nothing.

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Without a doubt it's true; physiological well being can't be maintained and psychological well being is factored in.... giving up, no hope or limited hope.

The old saying of 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' still holds, but people aren't getting jobs w/ bennies, they're underemployed, unemployed, and are sacrificing medical needs in lieu of more pressing needs.

Try to blame Dems or Repubs; truth is, NONE have legislated towards American Businesses remaining in America, hiring Americans for American wages, so that Americans can have American benefits and pay what American bussiness(that are now mostly overseas) charge.

American business has become Corporo-government entities that will profit from 3rd world wages, the lowest bidder, and know that eventually the stack of cards will fall, and Our standard of living is going down, down, down......ALL in the name of the farce that is known as 'the global economy'.

It has nothing to do with healthcare, healthscare, insurance co's., etc.... . It has everything to do with people calling afore mentioned American legislation directed towards Americans being labeled as 'protectionisitic'.

Guess I'm a protectionist.....no, actually, I AM a protectionist, and would challenge any to try and defend current economic policies, those for the past 3 decades, and blame any one party for where we're at. Million dollar babies, our supposed Representatives.

Depression, lack of income, basic needs not being met, ..... what was expected?

well, there's only one way fat gets into the body and that's thru the mouth. People consume products with partially hydrogenated whatever and all other kinds of garbage. I see what some people pile into their shopping carts and it's scary. You can tell they don't read labels. People are killing themselves with the garbage they eat, simple as that. And of course the recession and all that other krap doesn't help.

all the communist China crap we're importing...it's poisoning us!..."L"

Finally Barack Obama is making something smaller. Two years of socialist misery and his eugenics budides are living the dream. Lowering the number of unproductive years of the peasants and peons is a sure way to "take the profit out of healthcare".

A sure way to make social security profitable again is to insure no one lives long enough to collect it. Thanks Obama and socialism for spreading misery and shortening lives.

Oh wait,here comes the socialist response

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Thanks to Obamacare the life expectancy will go down to no more than 76 years old like others country in Europe with the healt care in the hands of Government.

The average life expectancy will continue to decline and I think a lot of people are going to be shocked in the next 10 to 20 years by just how much it is going to fall. Look around you, and take notice of the overweight and obese adults and mainly children. These people will NEVER even get close to collecting social security benefits. I have said it before, there is no long term problem with social security, when people keep gaining weight. There are not many fat and obese that live past the average life expectancy. Please see if you can count just 10! Within the next 20 years, children will NOT out live their parents. Parents will be burying more of their children then ever before. I am not talking young kids, I am talking about adults! This country is in a very sad place for health of its citizens compared to other countries. It is totally a shame that kids are so overweight and adults are lacking in responsibility and neglect to their own kids! Parents with overweight kids should be ashamed of themselves for not taking control!

It's called "soft kill." The global elite want to reduce the population. It's a fact.

Wait till obamaCare and Death Panels take over .. will be around 67.9 then

we are a country of empty brains !! but our stomachs are stuffed with sh@* !!

Eat right, don't smoke. Thank you.

Sounds good to me. Since I am unemployed because my job and most in my field being outsourced and I am well over 50 so prospects become slimmer. I won't have to live in poverty as long. Seriously however the numbers most likely just reflect what some group wanted them too show. We are all gonna die one day does it really make a difference if its at 77 or 78 on average ?

Interesting: you read the article, and it sounds like everything you hear about - cancer, heart disease, accidents, etc - are killing fewer people...So why the drop in life expectancy? Could it be in large part due to more suicides...and who  is more likely to commit suicide? Men...if women were more likely to commit suicide it would be considered a "national travesty" in need of federal dollars. But because it's men who are doing the dieing, hardly a word is uttered. Gotta love sexism.