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Would you support a mandatory retirement age of 75 for US House, US Senate & US Supreme Court Justices and if not why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

American life expectancy is going the other way.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Covid has had a huge role in skewing this.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

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.