Medicare Lowers The Boom

Obamacare cut Medicare by $716 billion in order to partially fund $1.9 trillion in new entitlement spending over the next ten years. A big chunk of those Medicare cuts came from the market-oriented Medicare Advantage program. On Friday, the administration announced that it would be significantly reducing funding for the popular program.

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