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Going to lunch, but you kind folks might find this useful:
"Medicare," Chapter 12, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition (2009).
Congress should
- establish, in all parts of Medicare, premiums proportionate to lifetime earnings;
- allow seniors to opt out of Medicare completely, without losing Social Security benefits;
- give Medicare enrollees a means-tested, risk-adjusted voucher with which they may purchase the health plan of their choice;
- limit the growth of Medicare vouchers to the level of inflation;
- allow workers to save their Medicare taxes in a personal, inheritable account dedicated to retirement health expenses;
- fund any transition costs by reducing other government spending, not by raising taxes.
So we are not killing grandma by destroying Medicare?
crap
Now I gotta call my mother-in-law back and try and apologise.