Elderly Health and Longevity in the US

Rising elderly life expectancy is a well-known source of fiscal pressure on Social Security and Medicare – but how have declining mortality and morbidity affected the two programs’ relative finances? Using nearly three decades of Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data (1992-2019), we estimate that these demographic changes raised expected lifetime Social Security spending by over […] The post Elderly Health and Longevity in the US appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesThe Sh...