Medicare 2014 – The Details Exposed

| August 4, 2014 | 0 Comments

Medicare reportIf you want the truth about medicare, the best place for you to start is right here:

http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/ReportsTrustFunds/Downloads/TR2014.pdf

This is the link to the most recent government report on the state of the Medicare fund.

What’s shocking is how differently the report is read depending on your political bent.

For an interesting take from Forbes, check out this article:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2014/07/29/medicare-hype/

The author basically calls the report outright Fraud!

Now here’s a slightly more middle of the road view:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/28/medicare-social-security_n_5627436.html

Look, any way you cut it, Medicare is in a deep pile of “you-know-what”! They’ve promised people a certain level of service, knowing full well as the law currently stands they will run out of money around 2034.

Now, if you want to see what good medicare is…

You need to check out this next article. It’s from VT Digger, and they highlight the $22 million Vermonters have saved in prescription drug costs since 2010.

Not bad… and an interesting article filled with facts and figures.

http://vtdigger.org/2014/07/29/report-vermonters-medicare-saved-almost-22-million-prescriptions-aca/

If you expect to collect Medicare – now or in the future – these are important articles for you to read.

 

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