Originally Posted by kane

The aging population part is an interesting factor in all of this. With medicine and advances in technology people are living longer than they ever had. In the past a 65-year-old person might get an illness or injury that would kill them, but now they can fix it and those people live another 20 years. In some cases those people are taking a lot of medication and the costs add up quickly.

When our system was put in place this didn't happen and along the way they have never really made adjustments to it to help deal with these costs.