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If The Dems are lucky, Mitt won't flip flop on his strong support of the Ryan budget.
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Perhaps you're missing the point. So let me help you by stating it again (although it was already made explicitly): there is no expectation or hope that voucherizing Medicare will lead to lower per capita spending.
Pushing someone out of Medicare (3.1% growth per enrollee) and giving them a coupon for a private insurance plan (5% growth per enrollee) doesn't get long-term health spending under control. Assuming that the same number of older folks is insured, which I suppose isn't a safe assumption--Ryan may well leave some with no insurance at all.
All it succeeds in doing is shifting costs onto the backs of seniors, it doen't slow spending growth.
Better than? The Ryan budget retrains the ACA's cuts.
It's kind of hard to score savings for a plan using a 10-year budget window when you propose a plan that ostensibly doesn't take effect fo 10 years. Unless you stand on the shoulders of giants and claim Obama's cuts as your own.
You are quoting the Dems lies.
The voucher is for Medicare or private Insurance. They would have a choice.
You are not adding the rest of their plans that would bring the cost of Health Care down.
That is the basic part. Bring down the cost of health care.
The Dems plan does not do that at all.
The Dems plan is capping the payment to Doctor's and the Doctors can not afford that.
Seriously?
So if the 'new' Ryan plan is voluntary, and choosing the voucher would represent a huge out of pocket cost for the Medicare patient over simply staying in the current plan,
1. what idiot is going to choose the voucher?
2. what is the savings if no one wants the voucher, but just takes Medicare as is?
Apparently Romney has decided that he can't win a referendum on Obama and thus it's time to more explicitly hitch his wagon to the GOP's radical agenda to revive his campaign.
So it's worth taking a moment this morning to remember that his new Number Two's plot to voucherize Medicare and shift costs onto the backs of future seniors doesn't save any money. It's ideological drivel that doesn't actually solve any problems that haven't already been solved. Why not? Because per enrollee spending growth in the public health insurance programs has already fallen.
Medicare and Medicaid Spending Trends and the Deficit Debate | NEJM
With the per-enrollee spending growth in Medicare and Medicaid less than that in private insurance and close to the growth in GDP per capita, it's hard to argue that spending on either program, on a per-enrollee basis, is out of control. Rather, per-enrollee growth in both programs is near the target often advocated in debt-reduction proposals. Total spending growth, which also includes growth in enrollment, is faster than the economy's growth. But policies that are appropriate when the problem is per-capita spending growth differ from those that make sense when enrollment growth is such an important cost driver. Policy options such as premium support and block grants that entail indexing growth rates to some measure of economic growth will have a hard time achieving lower per-enrollee spending growth than is currently projected. CBO estimates suggest that both approaches may achieve savings for the federal government, but such savings shift Medicare costs onto existing enrollees and, in the case of Medicaid, onto the states as well.3Rather than pursuing major restructuring of either program, then, we should continue adopting available strategies to contain costs within the programs' current structure, especially since many of those implemented in the past decade seem to be working, and many on the horizon appear promising.
I'm sure Ryan and his sidekick Mittens will defend their scheme by saying it's necessary. Unfortunately for them, that's demonstrably false. The alleged goals of their plan have already been achieved. Dismantling Medicare, throwing seniors into the private insurance market, and shifting costs back onto seniors isn't necessary for fiscal reasons, it's purely ideological.
I suspect we'll hear more about the folly of their ideological agenda in the coming weeks.
If The Dems are lucky, Mitt won't flip flop on his strong support of the Ryan budget.
If The Dems are lucky, Mitt won't flip flop on his strong support of the Ryan budget.
and the Democratic budget, care to share? I'll give you 4 years back, have at it...
If The Dems are lucky, Mitt won't flip flop on his strong support of the Ryan budget.
and the Democratic budget, care to share? I'll give you 4 years back, have at it...
Hint: Obama has never offered a budget that ends Medicare, cuts taxes for the wealthiest Americans and increases them for middle class Americans.
Ryan has offered such a budget and Romney has endorsed it.
Dem's policy is future Seniors will not be able to see any Doctors or to be able to go to an emergency room.No health care at all.
Medicare is going broke and Dem's policy is rob Medicare of 500 billion in order to get 30 million people into their not affordable at all Health Care Plan.
You realize that Seniors do pay for Medicare as it is every month.
The voucher pays for quite a bit of that and future seniors will have a choice whether they want a private insurance or Medicare insurance.
I see no plan at all from the Dem's in how to keep Medicare going for the future generations of the country.
Something has to be done in order to keep Medicare and Dem's have done nothing at all about it.
I do. Medicare is in trouble and will fail soon unless we continue to throw bad money after good. The cost growth is NOT in line with acceptable growth. The growth that exists is very much like the growth of Social Security. It is smoke and mirrors, propped up by deficit spending.
The Roadmap secures Medicare for current beneficiaries, while making common-sense reforms to save this critical program.
•It preserves the existing Medicare program for those currently enrolled or becoming eligible in the next 10 years (those 55 and older today) - So Americans can receive the benefits they planned for throughout their working lives. For those currently under 55 – as they become Medicare-eligible – it creates a Medicare payment, initially averaging $11,000, to be used to purchase a Medicare certified plan. The payment is adjusted to reflect medical inflation, and pegged to income, with low-income individuals receiving greater support. The plan also provides risk adjustment, so those with greater medical needs receive a higher payment.
•The proposal also fully funds Medical Savings Accounts [MSAs] for low-income beneficiaries, while continuing to allow all beneficiaries, regardless of income, to set up tax-free MSAs.
•Based on consultation with the Office of the Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and using Congressional Budget Office [CBO] these reforms will make Medicare permanently solvent
•Modernizes Medicaid and strengthens the health care safety net by reforming high-risk pools, giving States maximum flexibility to tailor Medicaid programs to the specific needs of their populations. Allows Medicaid recipients to take part in the same variety of options and high-quality care available to everyone through the tax credit option.
Adding up the annual returns from 1975 through 2010, as shown in the Dow Jones Industrial average yearly returns chart, and dividing the result by 36, the number of years covered, you will learn that the Dow appreciated by an average of 9.28 percent annually.
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Adding up the annual returns from 1975 through 2010, as shown in the Dow Jones Industrial average yearly returns chart, and dividing the result by 36, the number of years covered, you will learn that the Dow appreciated by an average of 9.28 percent annually.
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Employer/employee starting in 1975 putting the $500/month paid for SS/Medicare would appreciate by 2010 (IN SPITE of the UPs and DOWNs of that gamble called the stock market): $2,358,715!
Think of it! NO government DEBT because they wouldn't own this $2.3 million!
NO Medicare payments! NO SS payments!
AND if the employee after 10 years of retirement has $300,000 left.. GUESS WHAT !!
NEST egg for heirs... college education for heirs!
NO more STUDENT LOANS! NO more Borrowing to pay for college for heirs!
NO there are just too many DOWNSIDES to continue letting the Government grossly mismanaged our lives and more UPSIDES to let us control our destinies!