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To: epicure who wrote (128884)	1/21/2010 11:02:01 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 541990

To build a system that encourages such wasteful behavior in the old is foolish. IMO And to have the young subsidize the old in their wanderings is more foolish yet. Can't argue with that. But the system wasn't built to do that. It evolved that way. So now we're stuck with it unless we can find a way to change it that doesn't set us into a tail-spin. If folks don't retire as expected and the economy doesn't surge enough to create additional jobs to compensate for the slots potential retirees are occupying, then you have unemployment somewhere else. It makes more sense to me for an old person to be unemployed than someone building a family. An old, unemployed person may do volunteer work or not. But even if not, at least he's not occupied expressing his frustrations by doing crime or beating his wife or drinking and eating himself into oblivion or hanging around the house spawning more children. "Doing nothing" is better than making trouble. Figure out how to increase jobs before you start encouraging folks to keep working. If everyone has the same insurance, there is no incentive to cut off any particular group from the system. That's true. Then everybody suffers equally. Now nice! They should go right to medical school. Surely there are better ways to train doctors what what we currently do. And fixing that could help. And doctor-level skills aren't needed for everything they now do. And some procedure-based practices earn too much. Those are problems of over-regulation. So how do we fix that? I would suggest looking at de-regulation first before we apply even more command and control and lock ourselves in further. I think you are sub optimizing How so? My scope is broader than yours so it can't be "sub" yours.

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