Political Quotes

“Again, I think it's important--and you touched on this, John--when the Affordable Care Act was passed in March of 2010, the Congressional Budget Office was projecting out some savings because of the ACA. But they were figuring about 4 percent per capita growth. Again, as you pointed out, this chart now shows we're down to 2 percent. So they have actually been revising their estimates over the last 2 years. And the net savings, the recalculation just in the last 2 years has been hundreds of billions of dollars of lower expenditure than they had first thought was going to be the case. When you compare that magnitude of savings with, for example, raising the eligibility age to 67, they're dwarfed. It is really just a small portion of what efficiencies in the system are capable of producing. And the fact of the matter is that raising the eligibility age, there's no free lunch. The fact is that even though these are people that will be challenged in the private insurance market, 65 and 66 are still the healthiest population within the Medicare pool. So the ones who remain in Medicare, their part B premiums are going to go up. And that's not just me saying it. It's the Kaiser Family Foundation, which analyzed the impact of raising the age to 67. You're going to raise premiums. You're going to, obviously, leave people in a horrible situation in terms of trying to find any insurance.…”