[PEN-L:1722] RE: Cuts?

["Breen, Nancy" <BreenN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They are cuts in the growth of the program over time. Usually inflation and
other increases that are expected to occur are projected and included into
future budgets; these expected increases in future budgets are what will be
cut.  Given that the baby boomers will be aging and shifting into the
Medicare-eligible group over time there will be few dollars per person to go
around.  So, if you look at the program over time, as I've described above,
there will be a cut.

Nancy Breen, NIH
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From: pen-l
>Subject: [PEN-L:1690] Cuts?
Date: Monday, December 04, 1995 10:22AM

Any thoughts about the claim that the GOP's Medicare plan(s) relies on
decreases in projected expenditure increases rather than *real cuts*?
Several of the Right's spokespersons claim that there are NO CUTS in the
plan.  I'm somewhat skeptical of this claim.  What do you think?

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