heart disease, cancer, COVID-19 and drug-overdose.

Infant mortality is steady,
under 25 mortality increased very slightly.
over 65 went up by 20%, that’s where you find most of the heart disease and covid deaths, and it doesn’t decrease the life expectancy that much, since they’re already old.

The big problem is in the 25-55 bracket, because they’re dying from overdoses a LOT, and that’s hugely decreasing life expectancy. There’s alcohol consumption too, which increases cancer risks and deaths. Cancer screenings have dropped off in this bracket too, thanks to cost, so “preventable” cancers like breast-, lung- and colon cancers are killing more people.

It seems to be less of a direct regulation issue, and more of a “life sucks, so people do drugs”. Which one can (and SHOULD) argue is also a regulation issue, just less directly.