{"id":4417,"date":"2010-08-08T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4417"},"modified":"2010-08-08T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T17:17:10","slug":"krugman-bending-the-medicare-curve-and-the-health-care-reform-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/08\/08\/krugman-bending-the-medicare-curve-and-the-health-care-reform-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Krugman&#8211;Bending The [Medicare] Curve [and the Health Care Reform Bill]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his 5 August 2010 blog post, Paul Krugman writes <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/05\/bending-the-curve\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bending the Curve<\/a> about the most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.gov\/ReportsTrustFunds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medicare Trustees Report<\/a> projection that the recently-past Health Care Reform Bill will substantially lower the increase in Medicare spending as a percent of GDP over the next few decades.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~pkrugman\/curvebend.png\" alt=\"DESCRIPTION\" \/><br \/>\nKrugman says, &#8220;In other words, the Medicare actuaries believe that the cost-saving provisions in the Obama health reform will make a huge difference to the long-run budget outlook. Yes, it\u2019s just a projection, and debatable like all projections. And it\u2019s still not enough. But anyone who both claims to be worried about the long-run deficit and was opposed to health reform has some explaining to do. <strong>All the facts we have suggest that health reform was the biggest move toward fiscal responsibility in a long, long time.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-RichardH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his 5 August 2010 blog post, Paul Krugman writes Bending the Curve about the most recent Medicare Trustees Report projection that the recently-past Health Care Reform Bill will substantially lower the increase in Medicare spending as a percent of GDP over the next few decades. Krugman says, &#8220;In other words, the Medicare actuaries believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}