New Retirees

So many people who have toiled for thirty years have been able to leave jobs they hate because they
are able to afford their health care now.
Some Americans have needed to leave unpleasant working conditions, but they needed health plans,
so they stayed in places offering them.
Many people who haven't reached retirement age may need to take what pension they've accrued
and wait out the intervening years between now and the day they reach the Social Security qualifying age working at some venue better suited to a person who's hands, or knees, or eyes, or feet or ankles,
etc. don't work as wonderfully as they did since getting past fifty years of age.
People who leave work at say, 60 years of age, can either get other jobs after a bit, or vacate a space
desperately needed by a younger worker.
Furthermore, older workers don't have to worry so much now about family members who have gone
without the possibility of accruing health insurance, or who may have had trouble being covered as they had to move from layoff to layoff during our crushing post Iraq recession.
For so many Americans, that recession was a depression because people were often without either
food or shelter at the same time, for many weeks.
Now that fewer people have to worry about personal health, those people will be more free to make
commitments to other quality of life expenditures.