Kaiser Family Foundation Analysis on Medicaid & Uninsured

Neither solution works, because we end up with a medicaid bill we can't afford either way. 500 billion a year on top of over a trillion for Medicare plus another 250 billion in ObamaCare subsidies plus 600 billion on defense plus 600 billion in other mandatory entitlements plus everything else the feds spend our money on plus the mounting debt interest crisis on all the money we've been borrowing.

The country is doomed financially. Prepare for it, don't ignore it.

We're doomed financially unless we make some major changes - more than 50% of those health care costs are from preventable/treatable illnesses, high prescription drug costs, medical mistakes, overhead to cover the cost of the uninsured, bureaucracy, fraud, and profit.

We need across the board cuts, but we also need to get smart about how we spend money. Saving a dime that costs us a dollar later on and spending a dollar on something worth a dime needs to stop!

Neither solution works, because we end up with a medicaid bill we can't afford either way. 500 billion a year on top of over a trillion for Medicare plus another 250 billion in ObamaCare subsidies plus 600 billion on defense plus 600 billion in other mandatory entitlements plus everything else the feds spend our money on plus the mounting debt interest crisis on all the money we've been borrowing.

The country is doomed financially. Prepare for it, don't ignore it.

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We're doomed financially unless we make some major changes - more than 50% of those health care costs are from preventable/treatable illnesses, high prescription drug costs, medical mistakes, overhead to cover the cost of the uninsured, bureaucracy, fraud, and profit.

We need across the board cuts, but we also need to get smart about how we spend money. Saving a dime that costs us a dollar later on and spending a dollar on something worth a dime needs to stop!

50%? That seems very unlikely.

I was actually being pretty conservative.

Chronic disease is 75% of our health care spending (we can't cure all of them, but we can prevent many of them and do a better job of managing them), prescription drugs are 10%, other supplies add another 3%, 7% is administrative, and some estimates are that 30% of our health care is unnecessary spending (I'm talking about you Scooter store!).

Medicare fraud is more than 1% of the program's total spending.

Obesity, smoking, and diet are our achille's heel and one of biggest driver of costs. Diabetes and heart disease are $$ to treat.

I was actually being pretty conservative.

Chronic disease is 75% of our health care spending (we can't cure all of them, but we can prevent many of them and do a better job of managing them), prescription drugs are 10%, other supplies add another 3%, 7% is administrative, and some estimates are that 30% of our health care is unnecessary spending (I'm talking about you Scooter store!).

Medicare fraud is more than 1% of the program's total spending.

Obesity, smoking, and diet are our achille's heel and one of biggest driver of costs. Diabetes and heart disease are $$ to treat.

In my experience, two out of the three highlighted conditions are required for one to get on the Medicaid rolls, assuming you meant 'poor' diet. Very frustrating indeed to throw good tax money after folks who make no effort to help themselves stay relatively healthy.

Having a wife and kids is costly. Apart from having to get a larger place, one also has to feed them and get insurance for them in the event they get sick. The yearly survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation discovered that the cost of family medical insurance is also increasing, though the boost this year was small when compared with last year.