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To: frogjerk

“How about just being homosexual as the average life expectancy of a homosexual is about 46 years of age.”

Of course, in a study such as this, this factoid might make homosexuals a net positive for society insofar as they’ll have contributed much more to Social Security and Medicare than they take out. Smokers definitely are a net plus to SS for this reason. However, any such advantage could be quickly outweighed to the extent that homosexuals have a higher propensity to collect SS disability payments. I just don’t know the statistics on the latter.


12 posted on 11/27/2012 8:00:27 AM PST by DrC
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To: DrC
Well, accepting the life expectancy numbers in this thread is fine with me. However there is a big problem in the "health care" side of the equation.

The Canadian health system does what such things do best which is accumulate statistics and they have arrived at a surprising conclusion.

Those who live good, healthy, heterosexual, non-smoking, non-drinking, drug free lives do live a lot longer.

At the same time they have much longer end of life health care requirements and end up costing more than the abusers.

17 posted on 11/27/2012 12:30:10 PM PST by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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