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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Alex MG who wrote (3369)12/31/2016 12:59:21 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 356888
 
Paul Ryan lies continually that medicare is going broke

Entitlements are trending to be unaffordable (esp. when combined with the debt and future interest payments), and Medicare will become the biggest part of that (its growing faster then Social Security and will likely pass it).

Obamacare added to the problem, by effectively becoming a new entitlement. The PPACA law (as distinct from Obamacare, the later being a collection of rules and programs, the former including all of that but also other things tossed in) did attempt to cut payments to medical care providers. If that actually sticks long term (and the history is such attempts do not stick) then it will reduce spending in those other programs (at the cost of worse care for the people in them), but it probably won't stick, and in any case Obamacare added a lot of spending (more than the amount saved even if the limitations on other programs do actually lower their costs), so it adds to the overall problem.
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