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No. Doing so would be very short sighted, considering that human life expectancy would be seeing a massive bump in the coming decades.
American life expectancy is going the other way.
Covid has had a huge role in skewing this.
Say the state of readiness of the American healthcare system, their divisive politics and poor education standards might do that to life expectancy. That is not an excuse, every country had covid
Agreed. Although I do not believe this trend will be consistent for the next 4-5 decades. The US will definitely get universal healthcare in at least 2 decades. Making constitutional amendments for such short term issues is short sighted in my opinion.