[XorNot]

The elderly don't suffer from "being old". They are simply more likely to suffer from various events, and have more complications, then younger people.

Being old is just a series of increasingly severe health events till one of them kills you.

Even people with dementia don't typically last longer then 10 years (which is the sort of time frame you're looking at for people who recover from cancer to stop racking up bills).

[protomyth]

I am not sure what you are responding to in my post, other than to say I am well aware of "the sort of time frame you're looking at for people who recover from cancer to stop racking up bills" and believe we do a poor job on drugs from clinical trials on.