Raising Medicare to 67? Black men, enjoy your two years of coverage!

Meanwhile, work until you drop, while the work gets harder and the benefits get scarcer!

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Life expectancy for black and white men and women was as follows:

Black male: 69.8 years
White male: 75.7 years
Black female: 76.5 years
White female: 80.8 years

http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20060419/record-us-life-expectancy

inherent in the program in view of longevity factors. :patriot:

and what they do not -not in any circumstances, ever- call "cuts".

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join the GOP.

It's more of their patented brand of please die early so you don't cost us a dime, because that's how much we hate you bullshit - right?

agrees with Larry O'Donnell's assessment of the president's strategy!!

:rofl:

The numbers you present and conclusion you draw is incorrect. Why is best illustrated in this table:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html

in 2004, at birth the average white male had a life expectancy of 75.7, all other males 69.8. But notice how over time, the non-white males and white males edge closer and closer together - if they make it long enough.

By 50, the 5.9 year difference is now 3.8 years. A white male that makes it to 60 has 20.9 years ahead of them. The non white male 18.3.

Yes, there's a difference. But it's not nearly as large as you initially make it out to be. If retirement moves up to 67, the white male who's made it to 60 will get about 13.9 years, the non white male who's made it to 60 about 11.3. Per the figures in the table going back to 2004.. It's hopefully even better now.

So you're saying his life expectancy is 81? ('If retirement moves up to 67, the white male who's made it to 60 will get about 13.9 years')? He can count on "getting" 14 years of benefits?

That's much better. We should all plan to work longer, since we're getting so much at the other end :)

And make it to 60 the average expectation is almost another 21 years.

Also - in 1990 the average at 60 was 12.1, and it moved to 13.7 by 2004, so basically moving from 65 to 67 is a move to compensate for the fact that those who last till 60 will be around for longer than they would have a couple decades ago.

Not that I necessarily agree with it as I'm not really sure that it's gotten any easier to continue to be productive at the age of 65-67 than it was before, but from a mathematical standpoint, if the age is fixed at 65 forever, then we're going to draw benefits for a larger and larger portion of our lives - which makes it more and more expensive, and you either gotta move the age up or tax more and more to keep up.

Obama is eeeevil. Your numbers lie.

African American life expectancy from birth is reflective of a significantly higher rate of infant and childhood mortality.

Life expectancy from working age, say 18, would be more accurate, but the spread is not as dramatic and thus does not support your point.

Perhaps you might remind me when this change to social security takes effect.

Thank you

And there should be no question, that males die earlier than women. Due to the harder physical labor men endure.

Blacks fill the hard labor forces more than whites, common sense declares, and with the rising age of becoming a beneficiary, will in the end, as a whole, reap less.