. >> doctor peter mcmenamin, health economist and recently retired from the american nurses association. when i i was working for the nurses association and making projections about the effects of the affordable care act, i had an argument that two to 3 million people with age and to medicare for the rest of the century. i was challenged on that bike henry aaron. so i talked to former colleagues who are with the actuaries office. i got the projected age in numbers specifically. and he was right. i was wrong but my numbers were too low, not too high. we already are at 39 people aging in puryear and actually were not at 10,000 a day. that doesn't happen until 2019. but for the boomer generation, the average is 10,000 a day. what happens, and the reason that there's a a projected slowdown in the rate of growth of the aged population, is that the boomers are going to die, and the deaths will catch up and overtake the a jeans towards the middle of the century. and because of the increase in deaths, the actuaries, i believe, have that figured in. but i don't think anyone has really contemplat

>>i am doctor peter mcmenamin, health economists -- recently retired from the american nurses association. when i was working for the nurses association and making projections about the effects of the affordable care act, i had an argument that 2-3 million people would be on medicare for the rest of the century. i talked to former colleagues who were with the actuaries office. i got the project did numbers specifically, henry was right and i was wrong, my numbers were too low not too high. we are already at 3 million people aging in per year. we are not at -- that does not happen until 2019. for the boomer generation the average is 10,000 a day. what happens, and the reason there is a projected slowdown in the rate of growth in the aging population is boomers are not going to die. the deaths will catch up and overtake the aging towards the middle of the century. because of the increase in deaths, the actuary said, i believe figured in but i don't think anyone has contemplated what having more than double the number of deaths per year in this country by 2088 will affect hospital operations