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The overall statistics argue that we are meaningfully better: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2020-2021/LExpMort.pdf



Yeah, I won't argue that we made no progress. But most of the amazing life expectancy progress came from combatting infant mortality. As you can see from your own sources, the life expectancy of a senior adult only increased by a handful of years between the early 20th century and now. If anything I consider the progress in medicine to be lagging compared to progress made in most other areas like automation, transporation, communication etc.




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