There is also the risk of spending money too soon. Yes, we will eventually need more medical resources to handle the elderly. But if we spend billions for that NOW, the stuff will probably just sit idle for a decade or 2 until its needed.Infrastructure spending should be something that is done on a consistent basis.
This issue is already here. Not sure where you are, but in BC hospitals send dying people home, regardless of how much care there is or isn't available. No care? You can walk and speak so home you go - never mind that you can't figure out how to sign a form if someone hands you pen upside down, or that you no longer quite see the need for pants when you go to the grocery store, because after all, the adult diaper covers everything. In another case, a co-worker had to take almost a month off work because the hospital simply discharged her father one day. My partner also watched an old woman being sent home around 10 pm; people scurrying around to give her her belongings, call her a cab. She clearly had no idea what was going on.
We're already late on this spending to support health care services for seniors.
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