The Medicare Crisis
June 18th, 2023
This posting offers help about the medicare crisis and answers the following questions:
Is Medicare in a state of crisis?
Are radical measures necessary to preserve the program?
How is Medicare funded now?
Why do the elderly feel that Medicare is an insurance program, not a welfare program?Is this perception accurate?
Should there be a Medicare program at all? Does Medicare have detrimental effects on the market for health care, or the market for health insurance?
Why should the government be involved in providing insurance to the elderly?
Are these economic effects, offset by the positive effects of the Medicare program for the elderly?