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Where U.S. Life Expectancy is Dropping 6

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Where U.S. Life Expectancy is Dropping
Red shows life expectancy fell over the last twenty years for women

Think about this when both Democratic- and Republican-parties — including President Obama — embrace the idea of patching our Federal budget on the backs of seniors and the poor by raising the eligibility ages for both Medicare and Senior Security. For many Americans, life expectancy is declining, not increasing. 

Here's another way to look at the data from the NYT's article I posted about earlier, showing that lower-income white women were seeing their life expectancies decline, geographically instead of demographically. 

Via The Incidental Economist
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/life-expectancy-isnt-always-going-up/

HT 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/21/where-life-expectancy-is-falling-in-one-map/


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The great thing about being a tech geek is experimenting with technology to find… 8

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The great thing about being a tech geek is experimenting with technology to find new solutions to old problems. The downside of course is that anything that involves the rest of the household has to pass the spouse test. I'm personally willing to put up with quirky behavior to try out new stuff, the wife and boy, not so much. 

However, today my wife was so frustrated at browsing the through the hundreds of channels offered up by +Comcast yet finding nothing worthwhile to watch that she brought up the topic of cord cutting.

The reality is we only ever watch about 2 dozen of the hundreds of channels that Comcast insists on bundling. We never, ever watch any of the sports channels, or shopping channels, MTV channels, etc but of course we can't just pay for a bucket of channels and pick the ones we want. 

I explained the downsides of cord cutting and what we'd likely miss out on along with the hoops we'd have to jump through for a while, but she's willing to give it a shot. I'll be putting together a plan and we will probably give Comcast the heave ho in the coming months. 

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