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Jackson, Ryan[jackson.ryan@epa.gov] American Enterprise Institute Thur 8/17/2017 10:02:17 AM AEI Today: Bring Medicare tourism to Puerto Rico. It's win-win.
The federal budget faces a problem: the rising cost of Medicare benefits.
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Bring Medicare tourism to Puerto Rico. Ifs win-win.
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The federal budget faces a problem: the rising cost of Medicare benefits. At $10,000 per beneficiary per year, Medicare is one of the largest costs facing the US taxpayer -- and it's growing as baby boomers retire and their health expenditures increase. At the same time, the US island of Puerto Rico also faces a problem. Its government is effectively bankrupt, and its economy is contracting. But there's a policy that can help
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everyone. Not medical tourism, but Medicare tourism.
The unhappy paradox of America's Santastatism (2011)
As Congress stares down another debt-....... ceiling debate in the coming month, we revisit advice AEI President Arthur Brooks offered during the heated 2011 negotiations. "The public can be forgiven for believing that budget-cutting will always be an exercise in futility," he writes. "Politicians respond with [excuses], . . . The real problem, however, is that cutting almost anything is impossible when what passes for governing philosophy is little more than a bromide."
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