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Azure · 09-10-2009, 04:13 PM

I'm not saying Medicare is a terrible program. It might be a good program even, but there is a HUGE problem with the amount of money it is costing.

I don't see how this current bill being proposed is any different. And if I run some numbers based on what the cost was estimated to be for Medicare, and what it actually was, and use the percentage increase to do the same thing with this current bill, the cost is something like $65 trillion by 2050.

And that is without calculating in how many people were on Medicare at the beginning. Right now there are 45 million on it, IIRC, which would be about how many people Obamacare would cover.

So, the numbers could actually be HIGHER.

Unless of course you trust the government to not underestimate costs.

09-10-2009, 04:13 PM	#151
Azure Had an idea! Join Date: Oct 2005 Exp:	I'm not saying Medicare is a terrible program. It might be a good program even, but there is a HUGE problem with the amount of money it is costing. I don't see how this current bill being proposed is any different. And if I run some numbers based on what the cost was estimated to be for Medicare, and what it actually was, and use the percentage increase to do the same thing with this current bill, the cost is something like $65 trillion by 2050. And that is without calculating in how many people were on Medicare at the beginning. Right now there are 45 million on it, IIRC, which would be about how many people Obamacare would cover. So, the numbers could actually be HIGHER. Unless of course you trust the government to not underestimate costs.