So did you do the math?
No - I don’t have an accurate sense of how much to adjust downward the per capita amount for present Medicare users. But you can pretty much intuit that the overall amount, when expanded to the full population will be an enormous amount, perhaps over a $trillion a year. I’m open to any links to serious analysis of this issue - post away. The real numbers are very hard to come by. For instance, Heritage has a good analysis of what was then the Proposed Medicare Part D benefit in 2003. It was still proposed legislation at that time. Clearly the legislation and the costs of that program changed from the time the legislation was proposed to the final form as voted on.
But everything is dynamic - and you never get an apples to apples comparison in budget issues. In part because costs do change as the economy ebbs and flows, but also due to the fact that Congress never includes in the cost of a new program funds for data collection and analysis to evaluate the true cost of that program. They just go on to wasting money blindly in some other form.
I did . See post #31 above.