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Is the CDC Shortening Americans’ Lives?

American life expectancy dropped to 76.4 years, the lowest in 25 years, according to new federal data. Americans should be gasping. What could be more important than having the chance to live a long life?

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at Atlanta, April 19, 2022. AP/Ron Harris, file
BETSY McCAUGHEY
BETSY McCAUGHEY

It’s one thing when government raises your taxes, suffocates your business with regulations or censors your tweets. It’s far worse when government is to blame for actually shortening your life.

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BETSY McCAUGHEY
BETSY McCAUGHEY

Ms. McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and co-founder of Save Our City at saveourcityny.org.

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