John Goodman, FloydReports.com
While charges and counter-charges about Medicare are flying back and forth in Washington, hardly anyone seems to have noticed that Medicare’s financial problems have already been solved. They were solved by the health reform bill enacted last year, what some people call ObamaCare.
So why isn’t this front page news? Why aren’t people dancing in the street? Why isn’t the Obama administration boasting about this accomplishment far and wide? Probably because Medicare’s financial problems are slated to be solved by the unconscionable rationing of health care for the elderly and the disabled.
The most recent Medicare Trustees report conveys the same message as the last one: On the day that Barack Obama signed the health reform bill, Medicare’s long-term unfunded liability fell by $53 trillion. That sum is about three times the size of the entire U.S. economy. And, it gets better. Once the Baby Boomers work their way through the system, Medicare spending will grow no faster than the payroll taxes, premiums and general revenue transfers that pay for that spending.
So what does this mean for senior citizens who rely on Medicare?….
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I can not understand why there are some people who thinks Obama (and I have been a registered and voting democrat for almos sixty years) is their savior!
If they would google The Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness already funded with $1.1B and the fifteen members of the rationary board have been appointed…they would change their minds about Obamacare! Plus Obama has already transferred $500B from Medicare to fund Obamacare. Those of us who are Senior Citizens and have medicare have been thrown under the bus!!!!
Before you vote in 2012, be sure to do your research your candidate and vote not only for yourself, but for your children and grandchildren!
What bothers me most is this plan is not well constructed or thought out. Except for taking of benefits and money away from people and controlling their lives completely. I really don't believe this plan was meant to be fully implemented and it's already such a hot mess it can't work.
Oh but it can work Gayle. You see it is designed to kill off the seniors that have health problems and the disabled. this is how Obama will bring the population down to insure there is more room for muslim's and mexicans in America.
You have a good point there, fordman. Plus, how could it have been well thought out, when no one read the whole thing through? It was THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PAGES LONG! Who, but God Himself, knows exactly just what is in there?