IT'S TWO TRILLION DOLLARS, STUPID

This post now rendered meaningless by the above story. As Gilda Radner used to say, "Never Mind."
Drug benefit added to Medicare is NOT what is being talked about
Wake Up!!
The current cost breakdown of four hundred billion over ten years is absurd The Congressional Budget Office projects that Medicare beneficiaries will spend $1.8 trillion on prescription drugs over the next 10 years.

60,000,000 (sixty million) people were over 60 years old by 2003. That's sixty million prescription drug users the productive tax payers will now subsidize. The cost of this program will run into the two trillion dollar class.

Figure it out:

Sixty million washed up old farts spending your money for $500 a year in drugs comes to $30 BIL per year times ten years is $300 BIL right there. And $500 doesn't cover it. When they get through DEMANDING expensive treatments for their useless lives with expensive stuff we have to pay for, the cost is a minimum of Two Trillion dollars.

Let's say five million old farts want $800 Viagra prescriptions filled. $4 BIL (You think they won't get it?) Times ten years is $40 BIL
Another ten million demand diet pills at $150 per three months supply. $1 ?½ BIL Times ten is $15 BIL
Another five or so million decide that they may get prostate cancer so they NEED the new untried drug at $20,000 per month. That will put you in the trillion dollar class each year
A million old farts can't stop smoking? $150 for a two month supply times a million, equals $150 MIL
Cancer drugs? Cancer PREVENTION drugs (fill in the blanks)
There are drugs out there that run $1,000 a month and are in limited supply. You think this army of old farts will sit still for it? The AARP (American Association of Rapacious Pricks) will rip this country's young people for every dime they earn. No tax, no price, no burden is too much for young people to bear to keep these old farts alive for one extra useless day.

This cost is going to be in the two trillion dollar class when the "Baby Boomers" get through ripping the system with their lawyers, doctors, and "needs". Nobody can pay for this thing. Nobody, not even us.

So the next thing is price control. Price control equals research elimination. Equals the end of new drugs. Cut the price of drugs in half and the cost will still be a trillion dollars over ten years, and more if the AARP has anything to do with it..

Everybody better start adding and multiplying. And then look for a new country in which to live.