Not Medicare patients, that's for sure.
Medicare Trustee Tom Saving estimates that the cost of the
additional obligations in the Senate Medicare bill, such as the
prescription drug benefit, is equivalent to a two-thirds increase
in the $3.8 trillion public debt.
Illustration courtesy of Michael Ramirez and Copley News
Service
That means the children and grandchildren of Medicare patients
will pay for this open-ended entitlement in decades to come through
higher taxes, lower salaries and lost dreams.
No generation, no matter how great, wants to leave that legacy
behind.
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