Originally Posted by
downtube42
More or less agree. ACA does not appear to have adapted. I'm a little surprised they're still around.
As for life expectancy. 76 is for the population, which includes young people who'll die in the first 60 years of life. Turns out the longer you live, the further out your life expectancy goes.
For a 65 year old who's still alive, their life expectancy is 82. It gets worse (from the perspective of wanting boomers dead) the older they get. A 90 y/o boomer's life expectancy is almost 94.
As Barbie once infamously said, Math is hard.
Actually if you think about, a lot of boomers have already died young over the decades, exactly as you described. So if we are talking about all boomers, it's still 76.
Put it another way, let's say it's now 2060 and a handful of Boomers are still alive at age 100. Does that mean the average life expectancy of all Boomers is 100? No, the average is still 76.
Complication #2:
76 is the blended average for every person alive today. Life expectancy was lower in the past, so the average life expectancy for Boomers is lower than 76. The life expectancy for a baby born today is higher than 76. It averages to 76.