America has a life expectancy crisis. But it’s not a political priority.

America has a life expectancy crisis. But it’s not a political priority.
Washington Post
December 28, 2023
The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration had an urgent message last winter for his colleagues, brandishing data that life expectancy in the United States had fallen again—the biggest two-year decline in a century. Robert Califf’s warning, summarized by three people with knowledge of the conversations, boiled down to this: Americans’ life expectancy is going the wrong way.