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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by craftyguy on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:36PM (#17094731)
There will be a lot more older folks, who expected to retire and collect social security, still in the workforce as a result of diminishing payments by youngsters into that program. Demand for medical care will continue grow as the majority of the population gets older.

I believe Japan is experiencing this right now at a large scale.

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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by Analemma_ on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:52PM (#17094917)
Not just social security: it's public pensions and health care too - every program that expects a pyramid population shape with many young workers supporting a few older ones is going to implode in the next few decades. It's gonna get ugly.
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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by bmj on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:48PM (#17094864)
There are also ramifications with older people who have no one to care for them at the end of their lives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/01/24/feat...

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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by magduf on Friday May 18, 2018 @08:32AM (#17100866)
Yep, the Boomers are really going to suffer when they're elderly. But they kinda deserve it: they're the ones that screwed up this country so badly.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/17/generation-soc...

A generation full of sociopaths will be getting their just desserts when they're wasting away in poorly-run nursing homes with no one visiting them.

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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by gowld on Thursday May 17, 2018 @05:28PM (#17096080)
Japan is transitioning from traditional family-based care (which fails when children are absent or nonexistent) to government-funded social-safety-net care. USA has already made that transition (with Medicaid for nursing home care).
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