WASHINGTON, D.C.: The idea that living longer will make us infirm for longer and a burden on society for longer has been central to the government’s narrative about rising health costs.
We are certainly living much longer, and we’re set to live longer still. But living longer isn’t meaning living longer infirm or hooked up to machines.
It just means the end costs are delayed.
The government focus is on costs. It has done no work on revenue.
The argument is not being balanced by any economic benefit statement about having the same group work and contribute to the tax base for an additional, and unexpected period of time…