Health care policies to rise with age of baby-boomers

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=331529

Health-care spending in the US is expected to grow an average of 6.7 percent annually, from a total of $2.2 trillion last year to $4.3 trillion in 2017.

Policymakers and insurers are now facing the projection that Americans will spend nearly twice as much on health care a decade from now.

Costs are also predicted to shift from private insurance to Medicare as the baby boomer generation becomes older.
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Another reason why Universal Health is day has come

[aquart]

1. Nah. They're gonna let us die.

They've already started.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Correct me If I'm wrong

but since baby boomers (I am one) are a very large generation, is it not true that they have and continue to put the most amount of money into such programs as Medicare and Social Security? I'm all for universal health care but lets not point the finger of blame at the group of Americans who have provided most of the funding for our social programs over the years.

[Vincardog]

3. WE only get the blame when we start to demand our entitlements. They liked us as long as we were

CASH COWS. IT is time we kicked the Insurance companies out of OUR health CARE. Why should we be paying some SOB millions to deny our coverage?

[BOSSHOG]

4. You are my kinda Dog Vincar!!!!

I've paid into Social Security for more then 30 years, and I'm looking forward to my direct deposits.

[Breeze54]

5. Policies will rise or the costs will rise?

You better get a second paying job then because I want my Medicaid!!! :P

Don't worry... we have a lot of youngsters who will pay to support it, like we did for those older than us.

0-18 age group will be an even larger demographic than the boomers were!!

[murielm99]

6. Oh boy!

Something else that is our fault!

[blues90]

7. Yep , it's all our fault that we got old

I paid in for 41 years and also paid into and got ripped off by the HMO's for years who all should be put behind bars after we empty their bank accounts and give the money back to the people .

I have also been a good driver all my driving years and I get to pay high prices because of hot shot drivers .

[SoCalDem]

8. Duh!!

We have "been here" since the mid-40's..and now they want us to believe that no one saw us or knew we were here??
Madison Avenue sure knew we were here..They have been marketing AT us and about us for a half-century...

When we were 30 & 40-somethings, we were asked/forced to PREPAY a larger portion of our incomes for our own futures, and we did so willingly (more or less).

The real shame is that the generation before us, were in charge of spending our money, and as fast as we put money into our piggybanks, they took it out and left worthless IOUs in its place.

By the time we worked our way up the ladder, and into places of some power, many of the oldies were still "over us", and by then had spent all of our money..and charged even more debt to our "accounts"...and now the younger ones seem to think it was OUR fault..

Government policies are generational, and the age groups who feel the most pain are often the ones who had little to do with setting in place, the policies that impoverish them.

The life expectancy has "leaped & bounded" in this century, so oldsters of one generation no longer "turn over the reins" to the younger ones until those "youngers" are well into their 50's.. I am no statistician , but I sure do know a WHOLE LOTTA people in their 60's these days who still have parents alive.. When I was a kid, most kids I knew had no grandparents living...Mine had all died by the time I was 14..

Perhaps the real issue is that we have waaaay too many 80-90 year olds these days :duck: