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Re:Major Insurers Are Scamming Billions from Medicare, Whist... by formerkrogemp on Saturday April 16, 2022 @01:02AM (#31049637)
With declining birthrates, higher mortality rates lately, and very little immigration, I don't think "churn" will be sufficient here.
Re:Major Insurers Are Scamming Billions from Medicare, Whist... by car_analogy on Saturday April 16, 2022 @06:59AM (#31051373)
US immigration is near its 100-year historic peak [1], and takes the largest share of international migrants [2]. If that's "very little", then what would merely "moderate" immigration look like?

[1] https://cis.org/Report/Immigrant-Population-Growth-Slows

[2] https://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/the-us-ranks...

Re:Major Insurers Are Scamming Billions from Medicare, Whist... by formerkrogemp on Saturday April 16, 2022 @09:35AM (#31052201)
Your first link notes a slowing down of immigration to US 2017-2020. I wonder why? Your second link is claiming data from the US as having the most foreign born residents.. From 2006. Although that hasn't changed in recent years. US immigration is, like many things, at a historic peak because population size is at a historic peak. Percentage-wise, foreign born immigrants make of a record high proportion of the US population, probably due in large part, again, to our declining birthrates. Our population is aging at record rates as well, and our dependency ratio is increasing. We'd better hope immigration continues, or who is going to take care of all the old folks? There are economic consequences to declining and aging population.
Re:Major Insurers Are Scamming Billions from Medicare, Whist... by car_analogy on Saturday April 16, 2022 @09:51AM (#31052322)
> Your first link notes a slowing down of immigration to US 2017-2020.

A small slowing down, that still left immigration higher than at almost any other point in US history.

> US immigration is, like many things, at a historic peak because population size is at a historic peak. Percentage-wise, foreign born immigrants make of a record high proportion of the US population

Your second sentence directly refutes your first - US immigration is at a historic peak in both absolute and relative (compared to US population) terms.

> Our population is aging..

That's an argument that immigration is necessary, not that it's "very little".

Re:Major Insurers Are Scamming Billions from Medicare, Whist... by oneoff786 on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:34AM (#31053116)
I can’t tell if it was sarcastic, but the answer was trump