Jim Hoefler, of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, who is the author of a recent book on death in America, notes that boomers have a fear their parents never knew: that an impersonal health-care system may hook them up to an array of beeping machines rather than admit failure.

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Sensors, web cams, smartphones all hook into the smart city system.

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The plan would transition Medicare from a defined-benefit system, in which the government is on the hook for whatever services seniors desire, to a defined-contribution system, in which the government pays out a dollar amount for health services, growing with inflation, incentivizing all participants in the system to prioritize health spending to those services that are most valuable.

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It feels like an attempt to hook my kids into a proprietary commercial eco-system.

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You can hook it up to a TV or home theater system and then broadcast anything from the box over cables or the ether to simpler Moxi devices connected to TV and audio systems elsewhere in the house.

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Whether or not Gordon Brown's Treasury had an excessively optimistic view of the budget deficit, he certainly severely underestimated the degree to which Her Majesty's Government would be on the hook if Britain's world-beating financial system got into trouble: The financial sector bailouts account for eight percentage points of the overshoot in our debt.

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