Name:   phil - Subject:   Single Payer for Phillsieeeeee Date:   2/8/2017 6:14:58 PM

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottatlas/2012/12/18/lets-be-honest-medicare-is-insolvent-and-doctors-soon-wont-accept-it/#398f22f946f5

Pretending that Medicare is financially solvent while ignoring the facts about the declining acceptance of Medicare and the future of health care access for seniors under the ACA is worse than misguided policy, it is outright dishonesty. Instead of fixating on ideological differences, the first step is to agree about the urgency of the situation, so that we can keep Medicare for the long term in a form consistent with America’s core.

Medicare is spiraling into bankruptcy, owing to both the demographics of America and the realities about health care

That outlook does not even consider the bigger picture over the next decades coming as a consequence of the fantastic advances in modern medicine. As the newest “Global Burden of Disease” report in the Lancet just acknowledged, with increasing longevity come two very expensive consequences: more people are surviving to die of chronic diseases found only in old age.  They require expensive drugs, diagnostics, and hospital care; and more people are living with disorders that don’t kill them, but that produce disability and reduced health.