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+### Additional Evidence (extend)
+*Source: [[2026-03-10-cdc-us-life-expectancy-2024-79-years]] | Added: 2026-03-24*
+
+CDC reports 2024 US life expectancy reached 79.0 years (up 0.6 from 2023), but PNAS 2026 cohort analysis shows post-1970 cohorts dying earlier than predecessors across CVD, cancer, and external causes. Drug-related mortality drives almost all post-2012 growth in life expectancy disadvantage for White, Black, and Hispanic Americans. North America shows rising deaths of despair among young adults even as aggregate life expectancy improves, demonstrating the period vs. cohort effect distinction.
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+
 Relevant Notes:
 - [[the epidemiological transition marks the shift from material scarcity to social disadvantage as the primary driver of health outcomes in developed nations]] -- the US life expectancy reversal is the most dramatic empirical confirmation of this claim
 - healthcare costs threaten to crowd out investment in humanitys future if the system is not restructured -- 75 percent of US healthcare dollars go to preventable diseases while government subsidizes the behaviors causing them

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 ## Content
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 PRIMARY CONNECTION: Belief 1 disconfirmation context — why the surface recovery doesn't weaken the compounding failure thesis
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 EXTRACTION HINT: Archive as paired with PNAS 2026 cohort study; the claim requires both sources to be accurate
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+## Key Facts
+- US life expectancy at birth in 2024: 79.0 years (up 0.6 years from 78.4 in 2023)
+- 2024 marks third consecutive year of life expectancy improvement after COVID trough (2020-2021)
+- Post-1970 birth cohorts show earlier mortality than predecessors across CVD, cancer, and external causes (PNAS 2026)
+- 2010 period-effect deterioration affected every adult cohort simultaneously
+- Drug-related mortality drives almost all post-2012 growth in US life expectancy disadvantage
+- North America continues rising deaths of despair among young adults through 2025