There actually is some truth to that. Several years ago, if I recall the article correctly, Netherlands commissioned a study that showed that people who lived a healthy lifestyle into old age were a greater net cost to the public pension/health care system than folks who didn't take good care of themselves.
There actually is some truth to that. Several years ago, if I recall the article correctly, Netherlands commissioned a study that showed that people who lived a healthy lifestyle into old age were a greater net cost to the public pension/health care system than folks who didn't take good care of themselves.
The proverbial can has been opened. The EU wants to up the retirement age and howls went up from the French. Here you can retire later and you're rewarded for the delay.
There actually is some truth to that. Several years ago, if I recall the article correctly, Netherlands commissioned a study that showed that people who lived a healthy lifestyle into old age were a greater net cost to the public pension/health care system than folks who didn't take good care of themselves.
Or in a quite perverse way all the sickcare spending is regarded as "good for the economy".
The proverbial can has been opened. The EU wants to up the retirement age and howls went up from the French. Here you can retire later and you're rewarded for the delay.