Curbing Costs and Protecting Medicare

CONservative Spin:

“If government can run health care so well, why is Medicare going bankrupt?”
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CAF STAFF

PROgressive Response:

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Medicare has worked for 40 years. But the price pressures driving up costs in the private health care system affect Medicare as well.

Medicare actually has lower overhead than private health insurance. And if we design a comprehensive program to cover all Americans, we can save $1 trillion over the next 10 years. That will get health care costs under control and stabilize Medicare.