it probably won't come down to choice though will it?

there's been many studies into how a person's health and well-being in old age is related to their wealth (there are, of course, many exceptions, but broadly speaking...)

the chances are that the people with the greatest and most expensive needs will be those that have had the hardest life so there's an argument that this will hit the poorest hardest

on the 'plus' side, because the poorest don't tend to live as long, their care costs are more likely to be 'naturally' capped...

personally i'm in favour of some sort of 'death tax' (to use the Tories' own term for it) but i'm not convinced that this is the best way of going about it, not that i know what is either

Posted By: Ralf Scrampton, May 18, 16:58:13