I asked a friend who is a mathematician what he thought about the current health-care issue. He mentioned that what he liked about mathematics is that it could show us the answer, in retrospect, to our current health care, Social Security and Medicare funding problems. Also, he told me that risk, mathematics, and the “rule of unintended consequences” usually have a negative result when we do not use reflective thinking.
He said, when Congress “borrowed” the money from the Social Security and Medicare Funds to support the deficit, they never took into consideration the risk of an elderly population that was extremely, mathematically greater than the working population. He called this population differential “the gap.”
What happened to all of those people to fill the gap, I asked? He said, we need about 50 million people to fill “the gap” to bring it back to where it was in 1980, which should fund these shortfalls. But, that those 50 million people were mathematically eliminated by poor risk management and non-reflective thinking when the Supreme Court began ruling in favor of abortion.
However, he stated, we can fill the gap through the immigration of people who have money, are college educated, can speak English, and are not terrorists. And, we need to immigrate three to five million per year when the current rate is only 750 thousand. He called this the “unfulfillable shortfall” because current thinking is anti-immigration.
Well, I said, curses on us for not managing our mathematics better.
Hans Kasper
Bothell
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