The numbers will not work if Republicans start dicking around with Medicare.

[yellowcanine]

The way I understand it is that Paul Ryan is proposing to privatize Medicare for workers under 55. But that means that in 10 years when those workers turn 65 they will not go into the Medicare pool. But most of the costs to Medicare are because of people over 75. Without relatively healthy people aged 65-75 diluting the pool the costs will become unsustainable. Not only that but presumably the Medicare payroll tax from younger workers will no longer go into the Medicare fund. So while costs are rising, income will be dropping for the Medicare fund. This will basically bankrupt the system in as little as 15 years, imo. Am I missing something here? It seems like basic math.

[a kennedy]

1. D*mn.......

I dispise these horrible human beings.

[marybourg]

2. You've obviously done a lot more

thinking and arithmetic than they have.

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. sucks to be 54. n/t

[Ohioblue22]

6. That's me . I'll be 55 in Feb

[sarcasmo]

8. I'M 48 and figure booze and weed will be my health insurance.

[treestar]

4. would the younger workers even pay the medicare tax

where would the tax go?

[yellowcanine]

7. The tax would fund the vouchers which retirees would use to buy healthcare.

The idea is that if people are buying their own healthcare they will pay more attention to costs and that healthcare companies will compete more for customers. But there is little actual evidence of that. Healthcare companies do compete for customers if they are relatively healthy. If they are sick, not so much.

[Cosmocat]

5. They are just hateful, reflexive fucks

who get all randy over simplistic sloganering.

End of the day, the gentle hand of god called the "free market" will magically make everything unicorns and rainbows.

[0rganism]

9. "numbers" sounds suspiciously like "truth" or "facts"

and it's been established that such things no longer matter
the numbers will be whatever Trump decrees they shall be, right up until the bill comes due
and whatcha gonna do then?

[Kingofalldems]

10. That's the whole point. Bankrupt the system and blame it on Democrats.