Getting 50-year-old Americans as healthy as Europeans could save Medicare and Medicaid $632 billion by 2050, study says

Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 10:30 in Mathematics & Economics

A new study is the first to calculate the fiscal consequences of the growing life expectancy gap over the next few decades. The study also pinpoints the crucial age at which U.S. life expectancy starts to deteriorate.

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