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Originally Posted by Robbie
Dude, the life expectancy of people has been going up for years and years. It's an AVERAGE of everyone.
A lot of that has to do with medical advances. A huge amount of it has to do with less deaths during childbirth.
None of it has to do with people having or not having insurance.
Come on...don't start cherry picking stuff to try and "prove" something. Let's just discuss things and make our points without deception.
EDIT: And if you look closely at that link you posted...it clearly states that on AVERAGE, people were living into their late 70's back in 1960. Not sure why you think I'm "mad". I think I made a pretty sane and precise point that you are wrong when you say people were dying because they didn't have insurance.
It's b.s.
I never had anyone in my family or knew any friends who died because they didn't have health insurance. Did that ever happen to anyone? Probably. But that would definitely be the exception and not the rule.
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There are more elderly than there has ever been. So your family anecdote means nothing. The problem is paying for their care.
Do the young pay it or do the elderly pay for it while being young? There is no other option.
As for health insurance that's another matter that could be included in the health insurance. As you're in favour of the American system how much more do you think it will cost?
I assume you are putting money away for your old age, you should calculate to live to 80. That's maybe 30 years without an income. Marie should calculate living to 90, 40 years without an income.