Last year, my economists at the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee told an uncomfortable truth: Our poor health is not only killing Americans, but our nation’s finances as well.
We wrote a detailed report that included the effects obesity can have on our national debt and how we can make America healthier and reduce health care costs. We spent months analyzing the data, ultimately concluding that Americans’ deteriorating health, which is a major driver of federal spending, points to the way many industries work to maintain the misery of Americans.
The U.S. fertility rate reached an all-time low in 2023, at 1.62 per woman. Americans realized the future looked bleak for later generations, and we stopped having kids.
We also recently crossed into the fifth year in a row where prime working-age males are dying younger.
But why are we dying? You hear talk about the opioid epidemic − which, of course, remains a major contributing…
