Question by DAR: “since 1970 Medicare’s costs have risen 34% a year faster than the rest of health care”? Why would that be?
And what about this: ” Stanford University professor Scott Atlas points out that from 1998 to 2002 nearly twice as many new drugs were launched in the U.S. as in Europe. According the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry Report, some 2,900 new drugs are now being researched here. America’s five top hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country, according to Mr. Atlas. And a McKinsey Co. study reports that 40% of all medical travelers come to the United States for medical treatment.”

What would Obamacare do to that?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124588632634150501.html
subwm, I agree with that, but why would costs billed through medicare go up faster than costs billed anywhere else? Something about government management, maybe?
This doesn’t relate to the sheer medicare budget but to treatments under medicare as compared to treatments not paid for under medicare.
subwm, I dont think insurance is the answer either. I think the faceless third party payer is what causes higher costs.
Some of these answers are really interesting.

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Answer by subwm4bush
The ever growing number of people reaching retirement age and the soaring costs of health care.

Spending on Medicare and Medicaid is projected to grow dramatically in coming decades. While the same demographic trends that affect Social Security also affect Medicare, rapidly rising medical prices appear a more important cause of projected spending increases. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has indicated that: “Future growth in spending per beneficiary for Medicare and Medicaid—the federal government’s major health care programs—will be the most important determinant of long-term trends in federal spending. Changing those programs in ways that reduce the growth of costs—which will be difficult, in part because of the complexity of health policy choices—is ultimately the nation’s central long-term challenge in setting federal fiscal policy.” Further, the CBO also projects that “total federal Medicare and Medicaid outlays will rise from 4 percent of GDP in 2007 to 12 percent in 2050 and 19 percent in 2082—which, as a share of the economy, is roughly equivalent to the total amount that the federal government spends today. The bulk of that projected increase in health care spending reflects higher costs per beneficiary rather than an increase in the number of beneficiaries associated with an aging population.”

Karl Rove cherry picked his “facts”, as usual. More detail is needed. Here are more details Karl would prefer not to discuss in depth.

Medicare’s success. While in many ways private insurers and Medicare track similarly in per enrollee growth rate trends over time, Medicare has proven to be more successful than private insurance have in controlling the growth rate of health care spending per enrollee. Moreover, recent survey research has found that Medicare beneficiaries are generally more satisfied with their health care than are privately insured people under age sixty-five. Specific details and statistics can be found at the following link.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/22/2/230

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Question by cory: How come the medical industry says there are no cures for cancer when there are dozens have been found?
I researched cancer and apparantly our medical system has failed us. Research “dr hulda clark ” and her books on curing cancer. look into the budwig protocol and gerson therapy. Truth- our govt is suppressing cures for cancer. Our current “cut, poison and burn” technique is a nazi torture devise that only has a 5% success rate. While natural therapies cure cancer and people can do them at home. Cancer is caused by our poisoned food, water and air. If you detox your body you get rid of the cancer. Taking anti-virals and staying away from our medical system is important. As our medical system is the leading cause of death in our country. If you want to be murdered – then go to an M.D. who has a lisence to murder. Look online and see how many people have been cured of cancer by going across the border to mexico to one of the best cancer treatment centers like “oasis of hope” and the “gerson center” or the “hoxsey center”. We are being lied to so our corrupt medical system can keep bringing in billions of profits while they kill our families and friends. It’s time for american’s to wake up and smell the coca doodoo our govt is feeding us – lies!!!
To the govt agents hired to dispute “the truth”.

See info. on Dr. Hulda Clark who cured cancer patients using detoxification of heavy metals (from dental fillings), parasites, chemicals from foods, molds, fungus, dyes, plastics and more toxins that we are being exposed to on a daily basis. Our food and water are full of poisons causing cancer. It has already been proven that if one detoxes their body then miraculously their cancer cells die. How convenient that the billion dollar cancer industry hides this info. from us. Their statistics show that most people who do chemo die. Yet, the gerson therapy that has people drink vegetable juice 9 times a day has a higher success rate. Vitamin b17 IVs also can cure cancer. But for some reason a vitamin IV is illegal in the united states – because they don’t want any cancer cures here!
We know we are being lied to and we are waking up by the millions!
And we are coming for you!! as we know who is suppressing this information.

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Answer by Alex00244078
Is this a trick to get less intelligent or more impressionable people to do nothing about their health and die… thus improving the overall gene pool or something. If that’s not what you’re trying to do than you’re either posting this in jest or you have absolutely no clue what the hell you’re talking about. Cancer causes aren’t constrained to poisoned food water and air… not even close. If it were that simple breast cancer wouldn’t be a major cause of death of women in the United States. We also wouldn’t see 85+% of cervical cancer patients presenting with Human Papilloma Virus of serotypes 16 and 18. Cancer, at it’s simplest level, is uncontrolled mitosis in the body. How this happens can be due simply to inherent genetic defects or poor lifestyle decisions which have lead to excessive cellular damage. The damage stimulates cells to regenerate, your DNA is at risk of damage every time it replicates. Don’t go spouting off about something you obviously have no knowledge of.

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Question by I’m gonna start another riot: Can somebody explain why Mexico would even have drug rehab centers since Mexico says its only a US problem?
Even for regular families with addicts, drug centers can be ugly places. Parents commit unruly adolescents or even their adult children against their will for months at a time. Beatings are often part of therapy, hygiene can be poor and lax enforcement of regulations prevails.

No one knows how many drug rehabilitation clinics and treatment centers there are. The Mexican government is expanding a series of Nueva Vida rehab centers for teenagers, erected since 2007 with $ 205 million confiscated from a Shanghai -born drug trafficker.

However, it largely leaves the work of treating hardened addicts to nonprofit associations, some run by former addicts with little training. Many treatment centers are semi-clandestine, hidden behind walls with no signs.

A significant number of centers never register with the government. The former addicts who run them ask few questions of those who arrive for treatment, seeking nominal payment from family members.

Demand is high due to soaring drug use. A U.N. report last year estimated that 1.7 million Mexicans use cocaine, consuming 27.6 tons a year, nearly double the amount in 2002. Mexicans consume 3.9 tons of heroin a year, it added. Some 3 million Mexicans smoke marijuana, also a significant rise from earlier in the decade.

Officials put the number of drug addicts in the nation at 428,000.

President Felipe Calderon said drug cartels focused on Mexico as a market after per capita income tripled since 1993 to more than $ 10,000 last year nationwide and as much as $ 18,000 in Monterrey , a prosperous industrial hub near the border with Texas .

“This new purchasing power in the society has made the criminals modify their plans, turning from low-profile exporters to the United States to distributing and placing drugs in the big and small cities of this country,” Calderon said in a speech June 26 .

Zamudio estimated that more than half of those in drug treatment centers are there against their will, sent by family members with the help of police.

At most centers, hardened addicts are made to go cold turkey.

“There are multiple accounts of abuses occurring in drug abuse treatment centers, suggesting an urgent need for more regulation by the government and a more rigorous certification for the centers that operate. Using fear and the threat of physical abuse is no way to treat an addiction,” said Maureen Meyer , associate for Mexico and Central America at the Washington Office on Latin America , a human rights advocacy group.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/3574384
Why w Mexico has human rights abuse can this be the same Mexico suing AZ over human rights abuse ?

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Answer by Muerto Mujados
Racist la raza nazi KKKlan with a Tan MESSYcans LIE. That’s why.

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Question by 🙂: What percentage of the United States are drug addicts?
I dont want a number, i want a percentage and according to who is that percentage obtained? I need this for an essay and i have looked it up on google but they keep giving me number not a percentage. Thanks

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Answer by Spykerz
What percentage voted for Obama?

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