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Here we go again. Jeb! is pushing Paul Ryan's idea of phasing out Medicare and instituting a voucher program which seniors would use to purchase private healthcare, citing his belief that without vouchers seniors in the future would "have nothing."
But his gloom and doom view of the health of Medicare is not reflected by program's trustees, who yesterday issued a report that the program was solvent at least through 2030, citing the passage of the ACA as one of the factors in strengthening the the program. Before the ACA, Medicare was projected to face a serious fiscal shortfall in 2017.
"Ten years ago, Medicare was a runaway freight train. Spending was projected to increase indefinitely, rising to 13 percent of GDP by 2080. This year, spending is projected to slow down around 2040, and reaches only 6 percent of GDP by 2090. Six percent. That's half what we thought a mere decade ago."
The politicians have bled Medicare for decades making promises for a vote and giving more and more silly perks to those who did little to pay into such a luxury system. I watched the goodies being handed out in my mom's respite nursing home...endless free scooters and when I asked one of her table mates why she was giving up her perfectly good scooter...she said she just wanted a new one. Spa treatments...and let us not ignore the good doctors who ran these old people through like cattle with endless, silly treatments and tests..anything they could bill for.
We have contributed to the system all our working lives...probably see nothing at all at the end. I do pass out blame to both R's and D's for this shameful waste.
Bush wants to phase out Medicare. Scott Walker wants to phase out unions. The Koch brothers want to phase out Social Security.
Is there anyone out there with a sense of self preservation still thinking of voting Republican?
I am sick of the GOP but tell me what the Democratic party has done to stop the fraud and abuse of Medicare sand Social Security? They ignored the vast fraud and waste for decades using the Medicare and Social security system as a blackmailing tool to get the old mouth breathers to trust them..then let it go bankrupt. At least Obama has managed to stop some of the abuse and I applaud him for going after the greedy doctors that milk it. But too little too late and I do not trust the dems to save either program. Third party is an option in the future..if we have a future. Greece here we come!
Jeb Bush is a tool. He seems dumber than George W. and that is really saying something
Hillary is as big a tool. Sanders is a joke, a zombie resurrected lol. Jeb is a huge tool I agree. Where do we dig these morons up? Don't we have some capable people out there among the masses to fix some issues? Do they have to be freaking attorneys?
Another Bush we don't need. Medicare and Social Security are two programs that actually work and actually help people so naturally he want's them gone.
Well they would work if we could vet some of the abusers in the system. But neither side wants to do that...what would they run on? How could they blackmail seniors into voting for them?
Both programs are far too important to a politician on either side running for the big house. They won't let them go away. I do fear the younger people having to pay a huge amount more for them soon. They will also retire far later in life.
Another Bush we don't need. Medicare and Social Security are two programs that actually work and actually help people so naturally he want's them gone.
Do you ever stop and wonder why at an election year this issue raises its head again, but nothing the previous years has been done to fix it? Did the math suddenly appear on the CBO's computer?
Dubya, Cheney & Co plunged right into the last quagmire without giving a thought to the costs. Matter of fact, we were told that the cost of the war would be paid for by sales of Iraqi oil.
There's a lot of money to pay for this. It doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money. We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.
Congressional Testimony, March 27, 2003
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Sec of Defense
The emerging reality from all of this is that Pubs just hate to spend tax dollars on anything that benefits the vast majority of taxpayers.
Medicare is more typically a huge senior handout. On average an enrollee gets 2-3X back in benefits compared to the amount they put in.
Medicare and all health insurance is more typically a huge hand out to doctors and the healthcare industry. They're the ones that keep inflating the cost and benefiting from it. No one can afford to pay for healthcare like that.
Just look at a stint in a skilled nursing facility. Insurance and medicare typically pays $6k-$12k a month to share a dinky room and be fed prison quality food and receive the most crappy and minimal care. It's real value isn't worth 1/3 or 1/4of what it costs.
Because it doesn't "save" Medicare, it dismantles it in favor of a voucher system.
So, make your self clear.
Are you concerned about making sure the elderly get healthcare or are you concerned about abolishing a gov't. program.
What you, and on purpose, DON'T say, is that a NEW system will REPLACE Medicare.
Now, IF you want to discuss the good and bad about each, that is another story but, to just to blurt out they they want to get rid of medicare with nothing to take its place is a lie.
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