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Funny thing, but there is no official number for how many new Medicare recipients there are every year. However, starting this year, as the Baby Boomers hit sixty five, it is estimated that over the next twenty years the number of Medicare recipients will double from 40 million Americans to 80 million Americans. For the purpose of rough math, let's say that's an additional 20 million Americans coming onto the Medicare rolls in the next decade.
20 million Americans who, under the current deal being thrown around in DC, will lose two years of Medicare eligibility. Now then, according to Medicare itself, the average amount of benefits a recipient receives each year is $11,000, or 22,000 over two years, those two years that under the proposed plan, we will lose.
22,000, lost by 20 million Americans, over the space of ten years. That's approximately 440,000,000,000. Four hundred and forty billion. Over a decade.
By contrast, the plan for cutting defense is asking for 80 billion over ten years, or 8 billion a year, far less than the automatic hikes the military budget gets for inflation. And let's not forget that under the proposed plan, tax rates for the rich are actually going to go down.
Four hundred and forty billion, cut from a program that is not adding to the debt. All to appease a minority of tea party idiots. All because Obama doesn't want to fight for what is right.
Sorry, but that is just fucked up.
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