HALE is the cleverly appropriate acronym for Heath-Adjusted Life Expectancy, a fancy way of saying how many years people can live in good health.

As I noted in my recent article on U.S. birth rates, the increase in Americans' life expectancy has not been matched by increases in HALE:

Only two-thirds of Americans ages 55–64 are in the workforce. In part, this can be blamed on how little progress has been made in how many years they can expect to live in good health — to use the jargon, their health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE). This failure goes some way to explaining why

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