Life expectancy fell in 2022 for 3rd year in a row: StatsCan

This photo taken Aug. 27, 2013 shows a nurse prepares to administer chemotherapy treatment to Bev Veals at Duke Cancer Center in Durham, N.C. Coping with advanced cancer, Veals was in the hospital for chemo this summer when she got a call that her health plan was shutting down. Then, the substitute coverage she was offered wanted $3,125, on top of premiums. It sounds like one of the insurance horror stories President Barack Obama used to sell his health overhaul to Congress, but Veals wasn’t in the clutches of a profit-driven company. Instead, she’s covered by Obama’s law _ one of about 100,000 people with serious medical issues in a financially troubled government program.

Life expectancy for the average Canadian at birth has fallen from 82.3 years in 2019 to 81.3 last year.



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