Health Affairs July 10, 2024
This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront series titled “New Challenges for Health Care.” The series of articles focuses on emerging issues that are facing decision makers at provider organizations, insurers, public agencies, purchasers, and academic institutions in the health care sector. The articles are written by faculty members at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, a leading research medical school, and the series is supported by Icahn Mount Sinai.
Life expectancy in the United States has decreased for the first time in decades. This troubling trend is a rarity in developed nations. One of the main factors driving this decline is the escalating drug overdose crisis. More than 110,000 Americans died...