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To: bentway who wrote (875009)	7/24/2015 3:43:13 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583416

>> This is, of course, absurd – the challenges are perfectly manageable without radical changes to anyone’s health security. The absurd claim is that this problem is "perfectly manageable." Any person who can do arithmetic can see that it is not only factually incorrect, it is just a silly claim.

To: bentway who wrote (875009)	7/24/2015 3:50:27 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By gamesmistress Respond to of 1583416

>> Postscript: Just as an aside, the Medicare trustees’ report he encouraged voters to read shows Medicare’s fiscal health getting considerably better, not worse, in large part because of the Affordable Care Act. No. Not what they said: "The Board assumes that the various cost-reduction measures the most important of which are the reductions in the annual payment rate updates for most categories of Medicare providers by the growth in economy-wide private nonfarm business multifactor productivity will occur as the ACA requires. The Trustees believe that this outcome is achievable if health care providers are able to realize productivity improvements at a faster rate than experienced historically. However, if the health sector cannot transition to more efficient models of care delivery and achieve productivity increases commensurate with economy-wide productivity, and if the provider reimbursement rates paid by commercial insurers continue to follow the same negotiated process used to date, then the availability and quality of health care received by Medicare beneficiaries would, under current law, fall over time relative to that received by those with private health insurance." As you can readily see, the trustees said NOTHING like what was said, and in fact, they said ONLY if assumptions which would appear to be unlikely to be fulfilled were, in fact, fulfilled, might this happen.

To: bentway who wrote (875009)	7/24/2015 3:52:05 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1583416

The reality, however, is far different. As Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum explained yesterday, “So this is what Jeb is saying: Right now the federal government spends about 20 percent of GDP. We can’t afford to increase that to 23 percent of GDP over the next 30 years. That would – what? I don’t even know what the story is here…. This whole thing is ridiculous. Over the next 30 years, we need to increase spending by 1 percent of GDP per decade. That’s it. That will keep Social Security and Medicare in good shape. Why is it so hard for people to get that?” The problem is increasing the percent of GDP spent on Medicare..............means to wingers on this thread and the country.......that you are spending more on a program that should never have happened in the first place.........even though many of those same wingers get Medicare. What surprises me is that a bill to repeal Medicare has not appeared on the House floor yet...........