When someone else is paying the bill, the cost will always go up, it doesn’t matter if it’s medical care, medicine, or tuition.
watch this Medicare cut by 50%...
2012 Medicare budget is 916.00/beneficiary.
Abolish the Medicare Program altogether. Place another 408.00/month in every beneficiary’s Social Security Check which they MAY use if desired, toward a health insurance policy.
Scoff...but there;ll be more benefits in that scheme for the over 65 crowd than in any Medicare program in another 5-6years.
Dr. Paul is correct in this case.
And it will never happen. All of the political tides seem to be taking this in the direction of MORE Federal funding, loan forgiveness, and “free” college in the future.