Simon Wren Lewis looks at a recent research paper in the BMJ conjecturing that the Coalition 'austerity' program led to a flattening off of the previous downward trend in mortality (and upward trend in life-expectancy), and thus induced deaths that would counter-factually have been avoided with more spending on local authority social care.
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Death and austerity
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Simon Wren Lewis looks at a recent research paper in the BMJ conjecturing that the Coalition 'austerity' program led to a flattening off of the previous downward trend in mortality (and upward trend in life-expectancy), and thus induced deaths that would counter-factually have been avoided with more spending on local authority social care.