The Medicare Debate
The U.S. government have denied that Medicare has been going bankrupt. Although the government may say that Medicare has plenty of money it is untrue because it is a fact that Medicare will go bankrupt by the year 2001 as stated by preliminary sources. Medicare is one of the main sources of funding for those people that have no money or very small amount of money. The community service that was done for this research paper is hospital volunteering at John Muir Medical Center. The community service included various jobs that was needed to be done were, Putting items away for nurses, discharging patients, doing paper work, feeding patients, answering phones, and helping patients when they ask for assistance. The floor I worked on was Oncology (The branch of medicine that deals with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention). This community service has help me gain insight on the Medicare situation because I have asked multiple amount of people that work at John Muir Medical Center.There is a side to be considered about Medicare and Social Security in the government. The vice president of the United States, Al Gore, wrote in a letter stating that social security
The federal healthcare program for the elderly is a system of checks and balances where change is expected. The fact that we have something within the next year or so to ensure that nothing goes bad in the year 2001 or 2002 is expected(CNN1). But the government is not going to do that by slashing benefits. The reason for the projected bankruptcy is because Medicare is serving around 37 million people, and costs taxpayers an average of 200 billion dollars a year. Medicare and Social Security account for 34% of the current federal budget(CNN2). The percentage is expected to rise 5 percent in the next 5 years, partly because Americans are living longer now a day. Men and women are living about 6 years longer than they did in the 1960's (CNN2). A survey was taken by CNN on the opinions of people's healthcare plans. On an average people gave their health plan an average score of a "B" or better so people were satisfied with their health plan(CNN). Medicare will eventually go bankrupt because at the rate that people are using it and how fast that number is increasing Medicare will be out of funding indefinitely by the year 2001. The only thing that can be done is to raise taxes but that would be impossible because it is already costing taxpayers 200 billion dollars a year to keep Medicare going and that is hardly enough to even keep it going(CNN2). In fact that is not enough to keep it going. How to fix Medicare is the greatest challenge. This issue is a very important one that will eventually come under fire as we approach that year 2001 when Medicare is projected to go bankrupt. This issue might not be resolved and we could be seeing the end of Medicare. I this issue will get solved some how the taxpayers will pay Medicare out of trouble. This reminds me of an experience I had volunteering at John Muir Medical Center. I was working my shift and I experienced the pain of people that had there Medicare turned down. I remember seeing how angry patient was as she started to weep. This really showed the how important Medicare
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