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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
Of course there's abuse.
Primarily from bureaucrats and self-serving politicians.
There's malingerers under any set-up. Problem is an aging population mean demographic. That's what's taxing the system.
Short of a Logan's Run policy, that fact will have to be addressed.
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There is a lot of truth to this, fact of the mater is that our population is growing significantly older, as a result of a number of reasons, the first being that the baby boomers are aging and frankly we as a population are also getting significantly older over the past century roughly doubling our average lifespan. Combine that with the health care system taking a very liberal approach to urgent/required medical care and the budget starts getting chipped away at very fast.
There are abuses of the medical system, no one should deny that, but perhaps the larger reason is that we are now pulling out all the stops in order to cure the 80 year old grandmother of whatever ailment she has rather than letting her drift off into the night as would have been the case before. Not saying that we should go around killing old people but after spending a day with people with Alzheimer's and severe cases of Dementia you will soon realize that there are fates worse than death.