The aging of the baby boomers and rising health care costs will push up government spending.
Despite managed care's unceasing attempts to restrain the costs of health care, aging baby boomers are rushing to repair their creaky joints, valves and tendons in record numbers.
With health-care costs rising much faster than general inflation and 500, 000 baby-boomers now becoming eligible for Medicare every day, health-care spending is likely to hit 20% of GDP by 2017 and 25% by 2025.
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Today this means investing in technology, health care and financial services (baby-boomers save for retirement).
And, as 77 million aging Baby Boomers require more health and long-term care, deficits will head upwards in the decades after that.
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Among the changes it has proposed, Hywel Dda Health Board would close a special care baby unit at Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest.
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Then, as the Baby Boomers start to retire in greater numbers and health care costs continue to rise, the situation will get even worse.
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And because the baby boom generation is starting to have all the health care problems, that leaves healthy college grads paying for our impotence and menopause medications.
Because health care costs keep rising and the Baby Boom generation is retiring, Medicare, we all know, is one of the biggest drivers of our long-term deficit.
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It may surprise some readers that we were worried about long-term fiscal trends more than a decade ago, but independent budget analysts and the CBO recognized that rising health care costs and the aging of the baby boomers would put enormous pressure on the federal government.
The time bomb for health care is set for 2017, when the Baby Boomers enter their seventies.
It also is believed to be the first state to require all health care facilities to report every instance of a baby born dependent on drugs, according to Tennessee Health Department officials.
As a disabled veteran on Medicare, he worries about how potential cuts to entitlement spending will affect his health care -- especially as he and fellow baby boomers age and more of them rely on the program.
The greying will change American politics once ageing baby-boomers begin draining government pensions (Social Security) and health care (Medicare) and adding to the tax burden on younger Americans.
Both stocks have shown long-term growth of more than 20% per year and stand to benefit as baby boomers head into their golden years needing hip replacements and home health care.
The four AMs want Health Minister Lesley Griffiths to intervene in plans to move specialist intensive baby care to England.
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Many of these jobs are health-care and engineering support positions, driven by the aging baby boomer population and the increasing automation of technology and manufacturing machinery.
The issues that face children in terms of health could be so easily taken care of if we had well baby checkups and regular doctor visits.
Nurses at the RCN's annual conference in Harrogate said the government must make sure each area had a mental health trusts with a specialist mother and baby unit so they could get the best care.
Earlier this month a special meeting of the health board agreed a series of proposals, including the closure of the special care baby unit at Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest, with care for newborn babies centralised at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen.
With the leading edge of the 78 million baby boomers now in their early 60s, America's aging population underpins the bullish future of health care as a sector.
In a newly-published report, the SPSO said the health board had failed to provide adequate advice, care and treatment before and during the baby's birth in October 2009.
Judy O'Sullivan, Cardiac Nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said the better the care that women with CHD receive, the better the chances of good health for both mother and baby.
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