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?
“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 havent. Medicare costs go up and up.”
First of all I am quoting what a well respected economic think tank reported
It makes sense as drugs are cheaper than medical procedures.
Now consider if you can 2 which have nothing to do with part D; medical costs jave risen for every segment of medical care including private, right? you do know that, right?
and do you agree the number of people on medicare has ben rising rapidly and will continue to rise rapidly for the next 20 years
so IF the number of enrolees on medicare had stayed the same AND the overall costs of medical care at stayed the same then one could suggest that part d might have slowed the overall costs of medicare
but sadly we can’t change reality nor should we ignore it .
btw do you know how much people pay a month for part d and how much they co pay, unless they are poor