Then you have to take into account a lot of seniors don’t need nursing homes, just assisted living, or a visiting LPN once a week, maybe a housekeeper once every 2 weeks to do the heavy stuff. Would be a lot cheaper than a nursing home.
But 0’care guts that.
As would the Ryan plan with everything else if it had a chance of being law.
Your point is well taken though. Government is notorious for creating huge costs to themselves (taxpayers) with congressionally mandated spending reductions. The local paper did an expose a number of years ago on the F-22 development and explained that one reason the price doubled and tripled was congress kept cutting spending on it's key required capabilities that had to be funded and contracted years later at many times the original cost, all for nothing.