[quote=AN]BG, you really don’t get it do you. It’s not about this one study. It about the advancement of medicine in recent years. If you fails to see that, well, then there’s no point in debating further.[/quote]

Do you think there’s been some sudden lunge forward in life saving medical procedures and medicines over the last decade? There hasn’t. These sorts of medical advancements have been going on for century. Many of them have saved or extended millions of lives. BG and I were around when when everyone went to schools or community centers to get polio vaccine boosters. Those vaccines saved literally hundreds of thousands of lives. And I have no doubt that trend in medicine will continue. But it is far from a sudden explosion of cures.

If I remember correctly, the origin of this discussion is related to raising the SS retirement age. That might work just fine for the well educated and the rich. The problem is, that the under-educated and those with lower economic means aren’t living any longer today than they were 20 years ago. Not much longer than they were 50 years ago.

The rich and well educated get the benefits of these new treatments. Everyone else, not so much.