The Rich Are Living Longer and Taking More From Taxpayers
Social Security is becoming a much better deal for the wealthy.
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We’re living longer and longer. Well, some of us.
Age 100 is now an imaginable goal for young people around the world with good health care. The average woman in Japan is already living to 87. Yet many Americans are dying younger and younger. Based on the latest year of data, the Society of Actuaries last fall dropped its life expectancy estimates for 65-year-olds in the U.S. by six months. The health of middle-aged non-Hispanic white Americans is deteriorating fastest.