Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dicomed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!dicomed!boylan From: boylan@dicomed.UUCP (Chris Boylan) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.women Subject: Re: Women, Insurance, and everything Message-ID: <195@dicomed.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Jun-84 15:28:05 EDT Article-I.D.: dicomed.195 Posted: Sun Jun 3 15:28:05 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 19:45:07 EDT References: <2638@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: DICOMED Corp., Minneapolis Lines: 22 My impression was that women live longer than men regardless of the smoking factor. Is there a definitive reference about this? All this retirement stuff is a bunch of crud. Why don't "they" simply leave it up to the individual to setup an IRA style account and spend it upon retirement however/how fast they feel like it? If people don't plan ahead or blow it all early in retirement, too bad for them. I am not against starvation based upon stupidity... Retirement benefits tend to be a lose anyhow because people move around so much more frequently. Last job I was at I had money in the retirement fund for two years during the years of ??% inflation and when I left I didn't even get simple interest on it. Mandatory programs are so great... I like profit-sharing instead. -- Chris Boylan {mgnetp | ihnp4 | uwvax}!dicomed!boylan