Bill Clinton: “Commissioner Apfel just said that the number of people drawing disability has grown dramatically from more or less…”

“Commissioner Apfel just said that the number of people drawing disability has grown dramatically from more or less equally from two sources: One is the addition of mental impairments to physical ones; the other is the aging of the baby boom generation because the rate of disability increases as you approach age 50. So for people like from their late forties until retirement age not drawing Social Security, there's significantly increased number of people because there are just more baby boomers in that age group now. [An audience member suggested raising the ceiling for incomes subject to Social Security tax.]”