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How Does Retirement Affect Your Brain? (Ep. 17 Replay)

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Are We Just Shifting the Cost of Social Security?

Norma co is an economist and associate professor at the university of pennsylvania pearlman school of medicine. She came to this question from a health policy perspective. Norma was wondering about whether this change would harm people's health, leading to more medical expenses. For increasing the social security age in order to keep people working, are we just shifting the cost from the retirement system into the medicare system?

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