How does the graying of Americans affect health care resources?
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It means as the caregivers start to retire, there is going to be a shortage of experienced replacements at the same time demand starts to climb.
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Not sure what the heck you mean. I work at a hospital where we get many different races and backgrounds, most without insurance. From totally white trash to drug abusers to spanish who speak no english. All of them are treated equally if they need the care it is here. Most states will do this. If our own citizens dont have insurance, they can still go to the ER, just like the spanish citizens and recieve treatment.
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health care\n homelessness\nstate services
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anything to do with healthcare....with the millions of baby boomers on the horizon they will outnumber us and our resources....
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Yes, the birthrate of US citizens (as in most developed countries) has dropped below replacement level (2 children for every man and woman), thus if it weren't for immigration the US population would actually be decreasing.
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because of advanced technology people are living longer.Greater demand for health care.
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The middle class is dwindling and the lower class in growing. The rich are getting richer and more powerful and controlling. There are 300 million American's now. The vast majority are white, we have a growing population of Hispanic (that includes those from all Latin America) and that has resulted in people saying we have a "browning of America" taking place. The largest age group is still the Baby Boomer generation, that's mine, who were born in the late 40's through early 60's. We are also the biggest consumers.
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Health Care and Social Security\n\nIn the early 1990s, Mexico showed clear signs of having entered a transitional stage in the health of its population. When compared with 1940 or even 1970, Mexico in the 1990s exhibited mortality patterns that more closely approximated those found in developed societies (see table 5, Appendix). Health officials have also reported substantial reductions in morbidity rates for several diseases typically prevalent in poorer countries.
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You can find that sort of information on a government demographics webpage.  Just google it.
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Wow! I'm amazed by the bias and misunderstanding evidenced in the answers so far. . . I have lived in a country with "socialized medicine" (Denmark) so I know something about it.  To answer the question, I believe that the U.S. may now be the only western country without a national socialized health-care system.  \n\nAs some mentioned here, in socialized medicine, taxes or other federal and state revenues would pay for our individual medical costs.  But to assume that this would automatically be a big hardship for the taxpayer shows a misunderstanding of the way such a system works and the options in the set-up that we would need to consider.  \n\nThere are many ways to pay for socialized health care, and they don't always involve raised taxes.  For one example, consider this: right now, our tax dollars are wasted to an enormous degree on the pet projects of various legislators - projects that most of us do not know about and wouldn't care to be paying for!  I would like to see some of this "pork-barrel" spending done away with (and I believe that we are moving in that direction as people educate themselves about it and demand change) - that would go a long way toward funding things like a national health-care system.  Other forms of government waste exist also, where funds would be better spent on insuring all our citizens.\n\nThe biggest thing that would worry me personally about such a system, and that may be much of the reason why we don't yet have it in the U.S., is that its establishment would necessarily require some level of federal-level regulation.  Americans (myself included) have a traditional distaste for too much government control on the federal level.  \n\nBut in this case, federal regulation and the meddling that would come with it,  may be a necessary evil that we need to consider - because the alternative is to keep going along the path we are on, in which with every year we see fewer employers able to insure employees, the costs of individually-purchased policies grow more outlandish, and the numbers of uninsured citizens increase by thousands.\n\nI think that it is telling that we are the last free-world, western, civilized nation to NOT be insuring ALL its citizens.  In America, we believe that citizens have a birth right to some things - like education and social security.  I believe we need to start believing as a nation that everyone has a right to be treated when they are ill without it bankrupting them.  It's really a right to LIVE.  It seems elementary that we would want to keep all our citizens healthy, not just the wealthy and lucky.  Something is going to have to give, and soon. \n\nMac at ASKEW\nhttp://askew.blogharbor.com
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I believe we are seeing this today.  Some of the results are: a divided citizenry; widening gap between rich & poor, poor access to health care, poor/uncoordinated response to disaster (natural & man-made); a burdensome national debt etc. etc.
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out migration, ageing of the work force,  increase in morality rates, decrease in birth rates, disabilities
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I'm not sure about them overcrowding so much as they overburden hospitals by not being able to pay their bills which the hospitals have to cover.  I found this from the 'source' listed website which I feel is a good example, not exactly statistics though.  (I don't have time to do that indepth research at the moment). It is an excerpt from a 2005 news story:\n\nOverburdened by the uninsured and overwhelmed by illegal immigration (search), public health care in Los Angeles is on life support.\n\nSixty percent of the county's uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens. More than half are here illegally. About 2 million undocumented aliens in Los Angeles County alone are crowding emergency rooms because they can't afford to see a doctor
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Your link looks like a pension question, but you are using it for national health care purposes??? Would you rather ask about Social Security to make it more relevant?\n\nYou can get more information about this issue and analysis of the health-care problem from all the angles at the link below.\n\nLaissez-faire health-care economics makes no sense. Markets are good for some things, bad for much and  immoral for health-care. Markets can function efficiently if people have choices. There is no choice in your health-care requirements. If you have congestive heart failure, you can't say to yourself, "Ah, I don't need the attention of a thoracic surgeon this week, I'll put it off until next week."\nOr, "I don't have any need for cancer right now, I'll take indigestion instead."\n\nTherefore, a market solution will only distribute our health resources inefficiently and inequitably. Rich hypochondriacs get all the care they "need" while poor folks with bad hearts let their conditions deteriorate until they need the most expensive care available.\n\nOur high malpractice problems and claims are a direct result of having no national health insurance. When those poor folks who can't afford health-care finally are faced with a heart attack or some other acute episode, they head to the hospital to a doctor they've most likely never seen with no medical records to speak of. The doctors are "flying blind" trying to save the patients not knowing the full array of ailments, allergies, etc they might have.
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Because the baby boomers are getting older and needing more healthcare.  Plus, nursing has a high turnover rate due to all that is required.  Many people don't want to spend years and years taking care of sick people and their problems.
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buy some hair dye early greying happens to some people
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I live in AZ. and the benefits for Native Americans are mind blowing!!! There are sooooo many.Free health care, including dental(there is a hospital one goes to for all their medical needs), free schooling, and cash benefits. As for loans, anyone can apply for a loan. It doesn't matter what race one is. Hope this helps.