Where the Jobs Are and Baby Boomers: Healthcare Growth and the Feeding of a Graying Population. Is a Post-Baby Boomer Society good for our Economic Competitiveness?
- 3 Comment
You are currently browsing comments. If you would like to return to the full story, you can read the full entry here: “ Where the Jobs Are and Baby Boomers: Healthcare Growth and the Feeding of a Graying Population. Is a Post-Baby Boomer Society good for our Economic Competitiveness?”.
3 Comments on this post
Trackbacks
-
greg said:
But so what’s the problem, exactly, with healthcare taking up more of the GDP? Compared to spending it on… what? Our society is willing to spend a larger percentage of GDP than this on the military and defense, supposedly because we won’t accept a terrorist or foreign nation doing anything that might jeopardize the lives of a few thousand or even a few million Americans… yet healthcare is about preserving the lives, and the economic productivity, of over 300 million of us. Compared to the bang we get for our buck from the Pentagon, that seems like a really good deal! And what else do we spend on? Housing, food, transportation, which we don’t consider it to be a problem if they cost something more each year, fine… but then after that it’s toys, gadgets, crap, non-nutritional food, luxuries…. we don’t consider that a waste? On any reasonable list of priorities, preserving our lives and health should be near the top, way above $50,000 vehicles and McMansions and unnecessary weapons systems.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:45 pm -
marc said:
People born in 1960 should not be grouped in with boomers. 1959 is really the last of the boomers. Why? Because if you were born in ’59 and joined the military when you were 18, you were eligible for GI Bill (free college education).
If you are born in 60, joined the military at 18 (1978), then you got nothing because this program was dropped in 1977. I mention this because I believe the people born in 1960 will again get shafted when SS time come around.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:57 am -
gasoline cards said:
Yes, actually the elderly population is increasing globally. Japan apparently has a ridiculously odd population and an extremely low birthrate. Rising interest in the health care field has been rising along with rising demands. Its unfortunate that a mixture of terrible economy status and a rising elderly population have combined, it makes it tough iron the entire country.
-Randy
June 14th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
