Гады годы!

НЕ государственный долг будет забирать большую часть благосостояния будущих американцев, а разрастающиеся расходы на здравоохранение. Подскочившие налоги не столь страшны, как необходимость тратить все больше ресурсов общества на заботу о стариках.

Year Total GDP Per Capita GDP Per Capita Health Spending
1980 $5.8 trillion $25,700 $2,300
1990 $8 trillion $32,100 $3,900
2007 $13.3 trillion $43,900 $7,100
2030 $22.6 trillion $60,600 $15,300

The young's future has been heavily mortgaged. Taken together, all these demands might neutralize gains in per capita incomes, especially if the economy's performance, burdened by higher taxes or budget deficits, deteriorated. One study by Steven Nyce and Sylvester Schieber of Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a consulting firm, examined just health spending. The continuation of present trends would result in "falling wages at the bottom of the earnings spectrum and very slow wage growth on up the earnings distribution. These dismal wage outcomes would persist over at least the next couple of decades."

Еще интересный факт:
The healthiest 50 percent of Americans account for just 3 percent of annual spending, reports the Kaiser Family Foundation; the sickest 15 percent represent nearly 75 percent. Half of spending goes to those 55 and over, a third to those 65 and over. Any expansion of health care tends to be a transfer from young to old.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/11/AR2009101101590.html

Выход один: физкультура, вложения в борьбу с курением, ожирением и алкоголем. Вот спасение на будущее. Так что покупаю акции производителей тренажеров, велосипедов и прочего инвентаря :)