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To: TimF who wrote (14196)	4/1/2012 9:59:08 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

<<<<<Beyond that the problem isn't just the babyboomers>>>>> No duh! I said that. I said the following three things are making the problem almost impossible to fix; 1) demographics; That is the baby boom problem. A huge problem 2) science; This is not the same as demographics but creates the same problem. More people alive into their senior years means a soaring cost. This trend just gets worse and worse as science marches on. 3) unfunded long term care; You could also label this as just unfunded care. But the real problems to society and our health care cost is care that must go on until the patient dies. So if a woman has a child born with severe birth defects and has no insurance - that child could live for a very VERY long time and need health care - how do you pay for it? Obama addressed these problems - he deserves credit for trying. Now conservatives want to throw it out. Fine - but then what now? What is your fix? The false notion that doing away with tort reform addresses any of these big problem issues is just a silly pipe dream. I don't see this as a left/right problem to fix. We damn well better work together on a solution or we fall together.