Why would I comment on the costs of Medicare when my point was and is about the salutary effect ( borrowing from the NBER) effect Part D has had on medical costs of medicare? I mentioned nothing about the total costs of medicare
if that is the point YOU wish to make you can make it yourself
Let us review, shall we?
RWG: for every $1.00 spent on prescriptions with part d save over $2.00 in medicare costs
MSL: ‘Have Medicare cots come down? Have they even stopped going up as much?”
RSG: “Why would I comment on the costs of Medicare when my point was and is about the salutary effect”
If part D has a “salutary effect” one would expect total medicare costs to at least slow their increase if not stop. Despite the study, they haven’t. Medicare costs go up and up.
I have no particular problem with Medicare part D except is is one of many spending increases that the Democrats and Republicans have enacted since 2001 that has driven us under. If we want part D, where are the medicare taxes to support it? If we don’t want to pay for it then why are we doing it?