The State of "Elder Care"

This article has some very interesting, sobering, things to say about the future sustainability of elder care in this country. 

Essentially, in 50ish years social security and medicare alone will be consuming as much of our GDP as the federal government takes in all taxes - assuming continuation of current trends. 

That seems like a long way away.  Tempting to say "ehh, let your kids and grandkids figure it out.  I'll be dead."  And you may be. 

But, long before Social Security and Medicare consuming the entire federal budget, they will put a significant squeeze on education, transportation, judicial, and defense funding. 

And that is without even taking other mandatory spending into account.