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All you have to do is cap medicare growth? Wow, that's easy. How's that work? How do you "cap" it? Obamacare was a huge process just to limit future growth,
by jbooth 16y ago
All you have to do is cap medicare growth? Wow, that's easy.
How's that work? How do you "cap" it? Obamacare was a huge process just to limit future growth, and it involved talk about "death panels" in order to make incremental reform happen. What's a straight "cap" look like?
- quanticle 16y agoWell the specific proposal the New York Times cites would essentially put Medicare funding on autopilot. Instead of letting Medicare funding be dependent on the whims of the current Congress it would allocate 1% of GDP to Medicare every year. It would be up to the Medicare administrators to determine how to spend that 1%. I think its a good idea, but its so politically infeasible, it may as well not be considered. I mean, anyone who tries to defend a hard limit like that is going to get totally mauled by the other party, who will demagogue it as, "You're going to kill seniors by taking away their health care."
- jeffreymcmanus 16y agoThere's a hard limit on it today, this would just make the hard limit consistent.