Quote:Yes, another issue. We've made a commitment to the over 65 crowd that we'll have trouble honoring without driving the expense to debt, further burdening future generations who also need to pay for their own health care.Does this maybe say something about the reasonableness of self-insurance, medical or otherwise? The future is tough to predict on an individual level...
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My grandma, then in her 90's, felt bad when they ran out of money and told me many times that they never thought they would live so long.
As for over-65s, people are going to have to work longer. It's just the clear and necessary tradeoff for a longer, healthier life. The only alternative is to have a gigantic subclass of people who work hard and die young. I don't think we really want that.
-Jester
Afterthought: Or robots. Robots would work too.