Health system challenges mount as boomers turn 65

McClatchy reports:

The baby boom generation, which has been shaking up American society for more than a half-century, is about to unleash one last revolution.

Starting next month, the first of the nation's 75 million baby boomers – born in the generation after World War II, between 1946 and 1964 – will reach age 65, setting the stage for a huge retirement rush that will test the resources of government and boomers alike. The frontier will be health care, and the danger is that the combination of rising costs and boomer retirements could swamp the health system.

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