not now, but say 20 years in advance. So the main argument we make is, if you like, a political one, that we don't think it would be possible for politicians to do this, there's also, I think, a more moral welfare type argument, which is how far is it actually right to reduce the relative benefits of Medicare and Medicaid to our populations? Yeah, I mean, I thought about this a bit because you raised it in the book, and one further point of support for your argument is actually the response of governments across the world, and particularly in China, for reasons perhaps that are multifaceted, the very stringent COVID measures that were put in place. Now, COVID disproportionately impacted and threatened older demographics, and yet societies across both the West and East made every effort to try and to lower the incidence of mortality and morbidity as a result of the spread of the virus in order to contain it. So I think that's an interesting piece of support, which is in other words that (24/43)
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