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Old 09-02-2024, 08:19 AM
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What I see that worries me is the medical services are not being put in to service the aging population. They say they can’t get enough doctors to staff the current population what happens when it increases by 75%.
I have always thought the Morses' model was that healthy retirees move here. They are active and enjoy and use the golf, tennis, clubs, ate and drank out, shopped etc. There were no retirement homes, there were no memory units. That is all new. The plan was that when you aged to the point you were no longer playing golf and tennis and spending money at the merchants, you moved back to your hometown. No need for much real medical care here. Still no second hospital and a low quality hospital only present.

So, to answer your question... if we don't have doctors, then we die sooner or move away, and the homes turn over which is where they make money and replace the ill with healthy people. Rinse and repeat.
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