Medicare Costs Slowing

[Star]

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Report: Obamacare, Boomers, Recession Slowing Medicare Costs
By Kimberly Leonard
Sept. 3, 2014

The cost of Medicare will grow at a lower rate than initially anticipated – a change government economists attribute to the expansion of insurance coverage through Obamacare, a lower average age of Medicare beneficiaries and economic growth.

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The report found that health care spending increased by 5.6 percent in 2014 and it projects an increase of 6 percent per year from 2015 to 2023. The health share of GDP still is expected to rise to nearly one-fifth of the nation's economy by 2023 because health care spending currently is growing at a rate 1.1 percent faster than economic growth.​

That would be a slower rate of growth than from 1990 to 2008, when the average annual growth rate was 7.2 percent and health care spending grew 2 percent faster than GDP. ​

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[deltex1]

The repubs are doomed.....ehhhhhh?

 

[Star]

The repubs are doomed.....ehhhhhh?

I think you're right but-----but why are you asking me why you think "The Repubs are doomed?" on a thread about the slowing costs of Medicare?

 

[Stephanie]

lol, GOVERNMENT economist

usatoday is like another lapdog for the DNC

 

[Star]

lol, GOVERNMENT economist

usatoday is like another lapdog for the DNC

When did Ms Leonard change jobs?
or-----or are you still crying out for help by asking the rest of the M/B to accommodate your apparent reading/learning disabilities? You may want to check out the government programs for people that can't afford private help.
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[JFK_USA]

Uh oh, Republicans aren't going to be happy.

So here is the canned responses:

- IT'S A CONSPRIACY!!!
- LIBERAL MEDIA!!!
- OBAMACARE IS HORRIBLE AND COULD NEVER WORK.

And other thigs associated with it.

 

[Stephanie]

Uh oh, Republicans aren't going to be happy.

So here is the canned responses:

- IT'S A CONSPRIACY!!!
- LIBERAL MEDIA!!!
- OBAMACARE IS HORRIBLE AND COULD NEVER WORK.

And other thigs associated with it.

who care's about you sniveling talking points. if you think you liberals are going to be "exempt" from what coming with OscamCare, taxes, regulations, no jobs, etc etc, you might want to get prepared

 

[Star]

Uh oh, Republicans aren't going to be happy.

So here is the canned responses:

- IT'S A CONSPRIACY!!!
- LIBERAL MEDIA!!!
- OBAMACARE IS HORRIBLE AND COULD NEVER WORK.

And other thigs associated with it.

who care's about you sniveling talking points. if you think you liberals are going to be "exempt" from what coming with OscamCare, taxes, regulations, no jobs, etc etc, you might want to get prepared

Talking points, schmocking points - 8 million more Americans have health insurance and can access healthcare because of Obama's Obamacare and-----and healthcare costs have slowed to a pace that must be a friggin' nightmare for the takers-----Republican profit takers - talk about sniveling -pewsh!-
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[Stephanie]

Uh oh, Republicans aren't going to be happy.

So here is the canned responses:

- IT'S A CONSPRIACY!!!
- LIBERAL MEDIA!!!
- OBAMACARE IS HORRIBLE AND COULD NEVER WORK.

And other thigs associated with it.

who care's about you sniveling talking points. if you think you liberals are going to be "exempt" from what coming with OscamCare, taxes, regulations, no jobs, etc etc, you might want to get prepared

Talking points, schmocking points - 8 million more Americans have health insurance and can access healthcare because of Obama's Obamacare and-----and healthcare costs have slowed to a pace that must be a friggin' nightmare for the takers-----Republican profit takers - talk about sniveling -pewsh!-
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I'm sorry but you really are a sheep
there have been free clinics around FOREVER. We have a center here that see's you on what your take home pay is, around 40dollars to pay for a visit I believe.

OScamCare sucked out of us taxpayers over a TRILLION dollars and grew more government to set up this scam and only 8 million people signed up forit out of 360MILLION and you call that frikken success.........

I posted another article from Kiasier that millions more of THE PEOPLE are going to be losing their insurance plans that they were ASSURED (if they liked THEIR PLANS they could keep it....Remember that won the LIE of the year from politifact). and your party PLAYED games with it so that they tried to DELAY the hits that are coming until after the elections
I'm sorry but it's people like you who is going to drag us into either bankruptcy or we might die before we can schedule an appointment...JUST THINk the VA!! and you helped put that on all of us

1.5TRILLION dollars for this:


and lets hope this won't be us soon

 

[August West]

Oh boy! Another one of those gloom and doom stories about what`s GOING to happen. Has anyone noticed that none of those things actually HAS happened.

 

[Star]

Oh boy! Another one of those gloom and doom stories about what`s GOING to happen. Has anyone noticed that none of those things actually HAS happened.

Well said August West and welcome-----welcome to the USMB.

Today's Republican party meets at the intersection of Projection Street and Fallacy Avenue, in the rural community of Dupe City.
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[boedicca]

The reason why Federal Health Care spending has temporarily slowed is that costs have been shifted to individuals via higher premiums and deductibles.

 

[Star]

The reason why Federal Health Care spending has temporarily slowed is that costs have been shifted to individuals via higher premiums and deductibles.

Nope!
According to the OP article..., well here read it for yourself: Report: Obamacare, Boomers, Recession Slowing Medicare Costs
By Kimberly Leonard
Sept. 3, 2014

And look, I really don't care about your feeeelings, show us facts to base your post on or-----or consider your post another...fail!
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[boedicca]

Did you even bother to read your article?

(And I said Federal Healthcare Spending, not just Medicare.) But if you want the real reason why Medicare spending slowed....from your article:

Spending on Medicare, the government's health care program for seniors and people with disabilities, has almost always grown more rapidly than the economy as a whole, often by a wide margin, says John Poisal, deputy director of the National Health Statistics Group in the Office of the Actuary for CMS. Though the costs of Medicare continue to grow, they are growing at a much lower rate than in previous years and at a lower rate than had been predicted. Because of government-mandated budget cuts from sequestration, Medicare spending growth was reduced by 3.4 percent.