In 2008, over 90% of non-elderly Americans with private insurance received it through their workplace.
Indeed, i n yet another survey, we learn that an estimated 12.6 million non-elderly adults were discriminated against because of a pre-existing condition in the previous three years.
Another important reason is that the average dollar amount per Medicare claim is much higher than for private insurance because the elderly and disabled use hospital and nursing home services far more than do children or non-elderly adults.
But as drug prices in America have climbed and fewer people are covered by health insurance (18.4% of the non-elderly population had no insurance in 1998, up from 14.8% ten years earlier) patients have become aware that Canada and Mexico can sometimes provide the same drugs at half the price.
Another 22% of the non-income tax-payers are elderly, according to the Ezra Klein article.
As long as entitlement programs designed with an assumption of frailty and inability to produce are adjusted to accomodate these trends, this becomes a large mitigation factor for the smaller youthful employee base providing for a larger elderly non-working demographic.
Brown was so shaken by the outcry he invented the non means-tested winter fuel allowance to placate his elderly critics.
Suddenly, I felt a tap on my shoulder as an elderly gentleman gestured towards my guidebook and a non-signposted village road.
They may also ignore non-customers (who are the biggest potential source of growth) and the elderly (who seldom tweet).
Homes for the very elderly that do not have help, medical care facilities that operate as non-profit, etc.
They cover a wide spectrum of society over many centuries, including the very rich (as patrons), people of more modest means (as smaller donors), and the clients, both resident and non-resident, who were mainly the poor and infirm, including the disabled, the homeless and the elderly.
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