By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The young drop coverage to avoid higher premiums
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
The Grim Reaper seems to be taking a few more holidays: The U.S. mortality rate has fallen for the 10th year in a row, a new federal report says, as Americans are living longer.
Last year marked the re-entry of suicide into the top 10 after about a decade in 11th place, Mr. Kochanek said.
Which is, of course, good news," said Kenneth D. Kochanek, one of the authors of the NCHS report, "Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2009."
