Medicare Reform: Paying for the Cake You Want to Eat

Today's post is up on PJ Media.

Since Medicare and Medicaid became law in 1965, people have been told: “You can have your cake and eat it too.” You can have the medical care you need and not have to pay for it. (You may think you are paying for Medicare with your payroll taxes, but in fact those taxes cover less than 1/3 of your projected health care costs.) 

For decades, Medicare and Medicaid have been paying for health care with no one facing the difficult question: “Is what we are purchasing worth the cost?” Not the doctors, nor the “beneficiaries” — and especially not the politicians. Doctors get income; patients get health care; politicians get votes — all with the carefree ease of paying for it with other people’s money.

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Medicare "As Is" is Not an Option

The Budget War has reignited the Medicare War with both Republicans and Democrats fearful of angering Seniors (and potential Seniors) about diminished access to blank-check health care.

Polls show people want Medicare to continue "as is" --but this is not a fiscal possibility.

Medicare must be changed, and both Pres. Obama and Rep. Ryan offer ways to change it.

The President calls for top-down restriction of care by a government-appointed panel of experts. Ryan's plan calls for restriction of government payment to individuals and more individual choice.

Neither plan ends Medicare --just Medicare as it currently exists.

Neither plan supports Seniors' ability to pay for care when Medicare won't.

The debate must continue.

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