Genealogy and ACA

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1. Heart disease was not treatable in the early 1900's. The growth of useful drugs began mainly

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in the late 50's and early 60's, and the growth in older population in general in the last 30-40 years. There were no anti-biotics until after WWII; death from flu, tuberculosis, and other illnesses now controllable were commonplace.

Before the Social Security Act, which only made its first payout in the late 1930s, the average person worked until they died, not much beyond 65, which is why the retirement age was placed at 65 years. Few people had savings enough to live on in retirement; they depended on family to see them through illness and old age.

My grandfather, who had the means to afford doctors and medical care, died in 1947 in his mid-60's of heart disease, having had a heart attack in his early 60's. My father died at age 70 of heart problems.