Posted on 02/08/2013 5:09:52 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Big Government: We almost never agree with President Obama's favorite economist Paul Krugman, but he recently spoke the truth about where Obama's policies are taking the country. It should scare anyone with a pulse.
Krugman, after speaking at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C., was asked about the debt crisis. After arguing it's no big deal in the near term, Krugman admitted that "Eventually we do have a problem. The population is getting older, health care costs are rising ... . Something is going to have to give."
What's that something?
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
Yep. I was the only “white boy” in the place at that particular time.
Medicare premiums do not come remotely close to covering the healthcare services the elderly believe they have "paid for".
And then they get outraged when the doctors and hospitals say no mas.
FYI I am approaching 60, I know Medicare will be gone by the day I turn 80, and have no illusions about that.
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