Dying Younger: U.S. Life Expectancy ‘a Real Problem’ – USA Today

Read article - Jonathan Skinner, professor of community and family medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics, is quoted about how U.S. life expectancy dipped by a little more than a month last year from 2014, to 78.8 years, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics. It's the first decline in more than two decades. The decline "could be a blip, but even if it's flat, we have a real problem," says Skinner.