HealthCare Notes

9/11/12

Dear Romney, We’d Like To Pay Attention To Details Of Your Medicare Plan – Just Figure Them Out First

Dear Romney, We’d Like To Pay Attention To Details Of Your Medicare Plan – Just Figure Them Out FirstFor a current senior, we estimate that these system-wide effects would cost an additional $26,600. For seniors reaching age 67 in 2050, these effects would cost an additional $106,000. Though Romney claims that “nothing will change” for current seniors, both the CAPAF report and a recent Kaiser Family Foundation report find that repealing Obamacare will increases costs for seniors and strip them of important benefits currently provided under the law. Repeal would in fact accelerate the projected insolvency of Medicare to just four years from now.