Comments on: CBO: You Can’t Double-Count Medicare Savings http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/cbo-you-can%e2%80%99t-double-count-medicare-savings/ Insights on Health Care Reform | NCPA Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:27:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Art http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/cbo-you-can%e2%80%99t-double-count-medicare-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-51143 Art Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:54:57 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=7915#comment-51143 What nobody is considering is the fact that the first of the long discussed "Baby Boomers" arrives this Friday and as the "Cost Curve" is being "bent", the "Demand Curve" will be bending more quickly in the exact opposite direction"-up! In addition to an increased number of Medicare recipients being added each year an increasing number also "live longer", while not as long as the other industrialized Nations. These two factors will increase Medicare recipients from the current 45 millon by an average 4 million (10%) in each of the next 10 years, as some $450 million in cost bending reductions are implemented. This not only increases the number of voters who do not see this cost bending as being anything other than "age discrimination" but to their families who will be involved in "caring for their aging family members" as government long term care is planned to be increasingly reduced. Perhaps in coming froma "family" without any ties, President Obama doesn't recognize that the majority of citizens have strong ties of responsibilities and love with their parents and grandparents and go "home for the holidays" to vsiit with them which rarely provides beach and golf time. It is much easier to be a good familyman when ones family is only immediate! What nobody is considering is the fact that the first of the long discussed “Baby Boomers” arrives this Friday and as the “Cost Curve” is being “bent”, the “Demand Curve” will be bending more quickly in the exact opposite direction”-up!

In addition to an increased number of Medicare recipients being added each year an increasing number also “live longer”, while not as long as the other industrialized Nations. These two factors will increase Medicare recipients from the current 45 millon by an average 4 million (10%) in each of the next 10 years, as some $450 million in cost bending reductions are implemented.

This not only increases the number of voters who do not see this cost bending as being anything other than “age discrimination” but to their families who will be involved in “caring for their aging family members” as government long term care is planned to be increasingly reduced.

Perhaps in coming froma “family” without any ties, President Obama doesn’t recognize that the majority of citizens have strong ties of responsibilities and love with their parents and grandparents and go “home for the holidays” to vsiit with them which rarely provides beach and golf time.

It is much easier to be a good familyman when ones family is only immediate!

]]> By: Nancy http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/cbo-you-can%e2%80%99t-double-count-medicare-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-51089 Nancy Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:23:08 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=7915#comment-51089 My question is: if Bernie Madoff is going to jail, why aren't the members of Congress who are responsible for misrepresenting the financial health of Social Security and Medicare also going to jail? My question is: if Bernie Madoff is going to jail, why aren’t the members of Congress who are responsible for misrepresenting the financial health of Social Security and Medicare also going to jail?

]]> By: Tom H. http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/cbo-you-can%e2%80%99t-double-count-medicare-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-51072 Tom H. Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:54:24 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=7915#comment-51072 Nothing new here. Congress has been double counting this way since the beginning of time. Every time they raise the payroll tax and spend the money on some new program, they claim at the same time that they have added to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Nothing new here. Congress has been double counting this way since the beginning of time. Every time they raise the payroll tax and spend the money on some new program, they claim at the same time that they have added to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.

]]> By: Joe S. http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/cbo-you-can%e2%80%99t-double-count-medicare-savings/comment-page-1/#comment-51070 Joe S. Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:34:31 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=7915#comment-51070 Good point. Robert Pear has an article about this in the New York Times this morning. Good point. Robert Pear has an article about this in the New York Times this morning.

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