My usual recommendation: Serenity (it is not easy to translate “Gelassenheit”), searching for “evidence” and arguments and the failures we did in past projections, being more careful in calculations,

and of course Mechanics last paragraph (p.91). http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/16/5/83.pdf

Best Regards

Markus

1. see attachment

2. see attachment: US population 2050 percentage 65+: 20,2 % = Germany 2007

Population age structure

Population: 65 years old and over

% of total population

Länder 2007

Australia 13.1

Austria 17.0

Belgium 17.1

Canada 13.4

Czech Republic 14.5

Denmark 15.5

Finland 16.5

France 16.4

Germany 20.2

Greece 18.6

Hungary 16.1

Iceland 11.5

Ireland 10.8

Italy 19.7

Japan 21.5

Korea 9.9

Luxembourg 14.0

Mexico 5.5

Netherlands 14.6

New Zealand 12.5

Norway 14.6

Poland 13.4

Portugal 17.3

Slovak Republic 11.9

Spain 16.6

Sweden 17.4

Switzerland 16.3

Turkey 7.1

United Kingdom 16.0

United States 12.6

Source OECD HEALTH DATA 2009, June 09

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/22/3/89.full.pdf

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/10/25/health-care-prices-ignored-once-again/

Dr.Markus Narath

Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft mbH

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