pensions and health care are among those extremely important issues, issues that have have tremendous impact on a lot of people, that is also mind-blowingly boring. even i have a hard time keeping my eyes open throughout a good pension discussion, and dealing with these issues is something i do for a living.
but anyway, there's a really good explanation of the problem, including the critical concept of dependency ratios, in this article. i think they manage to tell the story rather clearly without any drowsy side effects.
so read the article and then look at this and this. then tell me what it all means in 20,000 words or less. it's the blog entry i probably should write myself, but i got the day off work and i'd rather goof off instead.
