I've seen claims that the risk of death more or less double every seventh year you live. I assume the statistics are at least as bad for health problems.

If you live without health care you throw dice with high stakes. Point is, when you get older the dice get loaded.

My remaining hair is gray specked, this is something I considered carefully when I accepted to be outsourced to East Europe (-: love it so far, the city is almost called Kludge! :-).

Edit: Made a little bit clearer.