The Rationing Commission
As envisioned by the Senate Finance Committee, the commission would have to meet certain budget targets each year:
- Starting in 2015, Medicare could not grow more rapidly on a per capita basis than by a measure of inflation.
- After 2019, it could only grow at the same rate as GDP, plus one percentage point.
- Until 2019 the commission will only be allowed to attack Medicare Advantage and to raise premiums for Medicare prescription drug coverage.
- But a decade from now, all providers are fair game — which also happens to be roughly the time when ObamaCare’s spending explodes.
All these people who are selling out today are going to pay a heavy price tomorrow.
I think the people who sold out others should have their care rationed first.
This is all very worrisome.
Other than here and in the Wall Street Journal I haven’t seen this discussed anywhere.
As we spend more than the rest of the world on education, why not limit spending on that, too? Including teachers’ salaries…