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Vital Signs: Who loses the most by raising retirement age to 69?

Ready to work until you are 69 before retiring? Aw, come on—don?t you want to do your share to cut our nation?s trillion-dollar-plus deficit? That proposal is part of a package of recommended spending cuts and tax increases that will be voted on Friday by a national commission President Obama created to come up with ways to reverse the country?s deficit.

Interviewed: Patrick Remington, M.D., professor of population and health sciences and associate dean at the School of Medicine and Public Health