Comments on: Will Health Reform Hammer Millennials?

By: son_risa

son_risa — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:37:58 +0000

on another forum discussing the health care disaster, one commenter lamented that if this mess passes, singler payor Medicare for all will be dead for the next 20 years. I couldn't help but notice how well that comment fits in with S&H's generational blueprint. Consider- by 2030 ALL the Boomers-whether you cut them off at 1960, or include 1961 to 64 bulge- will be on Medicare. Mellennials will be dominating Congress, & like the GI congresses of the 1950's & 60's, who passed legislation that primarily beneitted GI's, Millennials will be passing legislation that primarily benefits Millennials. Doubtless this will include single payor healthcare. The big losers of course are the non-bulge Gen Xer's (ie Gen Xers by everyone's standards) who scrimped & saved their entire adult lives, who did without healthcare, or did without other things to pay for healthcare, who discover, as they become old enough for Medicare, that the Medicare doors have been flung wide open to include everybody in this country, regardless of age. This scenario falls so neatly into the Generations model that it would not surprise me one bit if this is what will eventually happen.

By: manish fusion

manish fusion — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:10:38 +0000

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By: sandyxxx

sandyxxx — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:32:10 +0000

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By: rockymeet

rockymeet — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:04:13 +0000

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By: Richardboomer

Richardboomer — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:13:26 +0000

"So we also need to revise the contract between the generations in a way that gradually reallocates resources from the more affluent elderly to struggling younger families and their children. Such a shift would not only help create more opportunity, it would improve the productivity of the next generation, making its members better able to contribute to the costs of retirement -- including their own. "

5 myths about our land of opportunity
By Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins, Sunday, November 1, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

By: Kelly85

Kelly85 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:21:32 +0000

This plan to burden the young adults in order to benefit the old appears to be an example of postseasonal behavior to me. Remember how in 13th Gen Strauss and Howe talked about how Generation X seemed to get the bad end of the stick generationally while the old folks of the time (the G.I.s) got the goodies (e.g. large Social Security benefits and "senior citizen discounts" for the latter while the former was burdened with high taxes to pay for those Social Security benefits which many Xers thought they would never get to see themselves).

Today's rising adults aren't Xers, they're Millennials. Unlike Xers which tend to go on with the system even if it works to their disadvantage, Millennials (being more civic-oriented) will likely take action if they feel they're being disadvantaged. Such action may include voting out the politicians who voted for the health care bill and/or challenging the bill in court. Maybe this will cause politicians to learn the hard way that Millennials aren't just an extension of Generation X.

By: Isaiah Janzen

Isaiah Janzen — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:40:51 +0000

Neither am I! I think most of us do feel like we get the short end of the stick once we turn 18. We seem to get hit with fees, like a new tax to fund baby boomers, more than anyone before. Who knows maybe we will actually sort out the healthcare system some day.

I just finished an ebook about Generation Y that you might find interesting: http://www.isaiahjanzen.com/2009/11/free-ebook-wh...

By: Isaiah Janzen

Isaiah Janzen — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:08:30 +0000

Neither am I! I think most of us do feel like we get the short end of the stick once we turn 18. We seem to get hit with fees, like a new tax to fund baby boomers, more than anyone before. Who knows maybe we will actually sort out the healthcare system some day. I just finished an ebook about Generation Y that you might find interesting: http://www.isaiahjanzen.com/2009/11/free-ebook-wh...

By: Ed Wheeler

Ed Wheeler — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:53:37 +0000

I think that the situation is going to be compounded by the relative population size of the Boomer and Millennial generations

As the Millennial generation starts to become more of a political age, I think we're likely to see the first rise of a generational voting block that could compete with the Baby Boomers, which in the past has been able to overwhelm the Silent and X Generations based on sheer population size.