Study: Lower-Income, Less Healthy People Will Subsidize Higher-Income, Healthy People With Raise In Retirement Age

Research Ties Economic Inequality To Gap In Life Expectancy by Michael A. Fletcher.  The Washington Post.  March 10, 2013

Your Money, York Life.  The Economist.  March 14, 2013.

Life expectancy increases have been growing at the upper end of the income ladder.  The implications of raising the retirement age are put forth by Maya Rockeymoore, president and chief executive of Global Policy Solutions:  "People who are shorter-lived tend to make less, which means that if you raise the retirement age, low-income populations would be subsidizing the lives of higher-income people."