The REAL American problem:

More Americans Are Dying

By Shlomo Maital

Rising US Morality Rates

     What is wrong with America?   Most news accounts focus on the US President, now featured on Twitter with the photo-shopped body of Rocky (check it out).

       No, that is far from the only problem the US has. According to a new study in the leading medical journal JAMA, “increased death rates in midlife extended to all racial and ethnic groups, and to suburbs and cities.”

       Suicides, drug overdoses and alcoholism were the main causes. But other illnesses, like heart disease, strokes, and chronic pulmonary disease, also contributed.

       According to the New York Times, “the increase in deaths among people in midlife highlighted the lagging health measures in the US compared withother wealthy nations, even though the US has the highest per capita health spending in the world”.

     And note: “fully a third of the ‘excess deaths’ (increased mortality) occurred in just four stats: Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

       It seems that Trump is unavoidable. Those are key swing states that elected him.   And his support there is still quite strong and resilient.

       The Democrats made a key strategic error, by focusing Congress’s attention on impeachment, while people are dying. Impeachment will end in futility in the Senate. Meanwhile the Democrats’ resounding 2018 win, in gaining a House majority, came about largely because of the healthcare issue.

         If Trump wins again in 2020, it will be the Dems’ own fault.